Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 2 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for one other memorable occasion , of course — when you were wearing nothing at all . ’ |
| 4 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 5 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 6 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 7 | I thought that elementary particles were less attractive because , although scientists were finding lots of new particles , there was no proper theory at that time . |
| 8 | Guy and Brian were discussing something of limited interest to women : something to do with commerce and the City . |
| 9 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 10 | He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all . |
| 11 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 12 | Certainly nobody else at my school was wearing anything like that . |
| 13 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 14 | I was expecting something like that . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think she was expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 16 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 17 | The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day . |
| 18 | Oh I was saying something about that |
| 19 | Ward 's voice was saying something about long distance aircraft , Gómez answering him more audibly , ‘ It 's not possible . |
| 20 | He was , of course , touching a nerve deep within the Russian psyche , but he was saying something like this , that ‘ if Christ is risen , every argument for atheism is flawed ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |
| 22 | But Harold was having none of that . |
| 23 | Dad was having none of this . |
| 24 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 25 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 26 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 27 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 28 | As usual it was impossible to tell from Adam 's granite features just how he was feeling — if he was feeling anything at all , she thought savagely . |