Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was itching to get further inside and check on Ari , yet appreciated Quincx 's robots were like children to the man . |
| 2 | As the afternoon progressed it was apparent that any amateur who could play to his handicap in these conditions was going to do very well . |
| 3 | I decided what I was going to do almost immediately . |
| 4 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 5 | No it was erm I was going to say much more natural in , in those days , I suppose in a way it was more natural . |
| 6 | He was going to land almost exactly in the middle of the widest part of the stream . |
| 7 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 8 | They alleged that Kylie confessed , ‘ I honestly thought I was going to fade right away . |
| 9 | Long years of involvement in Turkish affairs had led him to believe that , whatever he did to prevent it , the Ottoman Empire was going to collapse sooner rather than later . |
| 10 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 11 | In addition , because of the course of world events , he was turning to look more closely to France for political support . |
| 12 | When he was in his early 20s Richard Baxter felt so ill that he was expecting to die fairly soon . |
| 13 | Last week 's victory over Goran Ivanisevic was his first over a top 10 player and against Frana he never lost heart , even though his rival was holding serve far more comfortably in the early stages of both sets . |
| 14 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 15 | Rose was beginning to go regularly again to her mother 's house . |
| 16 | The condescension was beginning to go too far . |
| 17 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 18 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 19 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 20 | At this point I could see that Maxine was beginning to breathe more quickly and that she was becoming restless . |
| 21 | It was beginning to fail even then . ’ |
| 22 | But , just as she was beginning to feel marginally more confident , she came to the top of a straight slope , and , before she could back off from it , found herself being carried away . |
| 23 | By the end of the day she was beginning to feel slightly more relaxed . |
| 24 | A single man might be useful for attacking the marauders that Winnie feared , but then he might expect his washing and ironing to be done , and his socks darned , and Winnie was beginning to feel rather too old for such mothering . |
| 25 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 26 | She was beginning to speak more loudly , so that all could hear . |
| 27 | She was beginning to speak more quickly now , as if she wanted to rush all the words out . |
| 28 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 29 | He stood up in the controlled , fluid style she was beginning to recognise as peculiarly his , and came around the desk again . |
| 30 | Hyacinth was what David Swan 's mother would have called ‘ a bonny lass ’ and David was beginning to think so too . |