Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 2 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 3 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 4 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 5 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 6 | He was accusing her of having the morals of an alleycat again , and she was tired of it . |
| 7 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 8 | Utterly flabbergasted , Leith began to realise that he was accusing her of announcing their ‘ engagement ’ to all and sundry . |
| 9 | So one could n't justify having two people on board doing the job when in fact what was involved was bringing you in signing you in and then serving you . |
| 10 | She knew that John truly believed that he was protecting her by keeping their love secret , but she was becoming frustrated and annoyed about the situation . |
| 11 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 12 | Then Travis was rousing himself and , his coffee untouched , was mumbling something about getting back to Essex . |
| 13 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 14 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 15 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 16 | For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks . |
| 17 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 18 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 19 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 20 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 21 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 22 | She was shredding something by holding the tip of the blade and moving the handle of the knife around in an arc , her head on one side . |
| 23 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 24 | oh Matt , right , and he was saying something about getting married and he said about bridesmaids , er have you choose the bridesmaids dresses ? , how old is she then ? |
| 25 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 26 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 27 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 28 | I thought he was having us on exaggerating — because there were always people hanging out , trying to crash Malcolm 's scene . |
| 29 | And what was stopping her from accepting that offer ? |
| 30 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |