Example sentences of "that [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 2 | The little one that was standing next to the pram was about Oliver 's age was n't she ? |
| 3 | The difficulty was compounded by the new knowledge that was becoming available through the flowering of 17th century science . |
| 4 | It was a fiction that was becoming threadbare in the spring months of 1989 . |
| 5 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 6 | They stood as symbols over the years of everything that was going wrong in the one-time fairytale marriage . |