Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 2 | cos is southern Italy and it was nice and sunny during the daytime , so much so that we were walking about in just T-shirts er and all the Italians that came to us said , ye well language , what on earth are you doing without your er sweater |
| 3 | The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters recommendations . |
| 4 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 5 | Yeah well maybe he wanted to see if they were going up in even and odd numbers side of the road . |
| 6 | I do n't know what were going along with so I ai n't got ta say . |
| 7 | Supposedly there was a Hell Fire Club in London in 1934 , but what they were getting up to no one knows . ’ |
| 8 | They said they were sending along at once , so they should be here any minute now . |
| 9 | I 'd rather got the impression that you were coming round to quite enjoying working for me . ’ |
| 10 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 11 | There was a queue outside the parcel store and people were coming out with newly opened clothing parcels in their arms . |
| 12 | just cos you , you were coming out with about two hundred and fifty quid a week for working seven nights a week ! |
| 13 | I arrived home at about tea-time , we talked a bit , the children were charging around until about 7 p.m. , when they had their baths , and by 9 p.m. they were in bed . |
| 14 | This can be interpreted in a number of ways but the most likely reason is that customers were cashing in on relatively good prices as software vendors failed to keep pace with the rouble 's sudden plunge . |
| 15 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 16 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 17 | ‘ I was walking back from here last night when I got lost … ’ |
| 18 | Doyle was frowning down at yesterday 's paper , pretending to do the crossword . |
| 19 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 20 | and er we got to a car jack that was going over to somewhere where this flame would be you know and a bloke , a policeman 's coming back , where you going Ken ? |
| 21 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 22 | One Saturday morning , some two weeks after Mrs Frizzell 's encounter with Mrs Stych , Mr Frizzell was seated at his office desk in a glassed-in area above the garage proper , from whence he could see all that was going on at both back and front of his property . |
| 23 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 24 | And then he was going on about how he was gon na get into it and then he , I told him what , it did n't come out or something . |
| 25 | She 's not Jewish but she erm was going on about how a lot of Channing people had started going and stuff and they 're all JPs basically . |
| 26 | However hard she tried to climb into his mind and find out what was going on in there , she never seemed to get beyond that barrier which he had laid down . |
| 27 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 28 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 29 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 30 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |