Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 2 | I was literally breaking things over my head . |
| 3 | Maisie was always doing things with her hair . |
| 4 | He was always saying things like this . |
| 5 | Amin was there muttering things about his shoe size , trying to give the impression that he was going home . |