Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 2 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 3 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 4 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 5 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 6 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 7 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 9 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 10 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 11 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 12 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 13 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 14 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 15 | But Sarah and Mary were growing old ; by May 1855 Badcox Lane Chapel was taking upon itself the responsibility of arranging home visits to Mary , who was sick with diarrhoea , and were paying 1s. per month to help her out . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 17 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 18 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 19 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 20 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 21 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 22 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 23 | Was sleeping with him the price you had to pay for having him throw a little business your way ? ’ |