Example sentences of "[indef pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 2 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 3 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 4 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 5 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 6 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 7 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 8 | Eighteen or twenty thousand pounds was rolling out of Apple a week and nobody was doing anything about it . |
| 9 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 10 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 11 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 12 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 13 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 14 | It was as though something was pulling them towards that end of the cabin . |
| 15 | One was telling her to ‘ cheer-up , cheer-up ! |
| 16 | Predictably Labour 's Alan Milburn was pleased with The Northern ‘ s poll result although he stressed no one was taking anything for granted and the relentless effort would not ease between now and polling on Thursday . |
| 17 | He had been sure one was following him round Sainsbury 's the other day . |
| 18 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 19 | The teacher in charge claimed that there were at least nine children who ‘ linguistically could be good partials ’ but not one was attaining anything like his or her true linguistic potential . |
| 20 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 21 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 22 | If the world was a bathtub , the progress of the Ship through it would be like the soap , shooting backwards and forwards and never being where anyone was expecting it to be . |
| 23 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |