Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | ‘ I was walking back from here last night when I got lost … ’ |
| 3 | Doyle was frowning down at yesterday 's paper , pretending to do the crossword . |
| 4 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 5 | and er we got to a car jack that was going over to somewhere where this flame would be you know and a bloke , a policeman 's coming back , where you going Ken ? |
| 6 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 7 | One Saturday morning , some two weeks after Mrs Frizzell 's encounter with Mrs Stych , Mr Frizzell was seated at his office desk in a glassed-in area above the garage proper , from whence he could see all that was going on at both back and front of his property . |
| 8 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 9 | And then he was going on about how he was gon na get into it and then he , I told him what , it did n't come out or something . |
| 10 | She 's not Jewish but she erm was going on about how a lot of Channing people had started going and stuff and they 're all JPs basically . |
| 11 | However hard she tried to climb into his mind and find out what was going on in there , she never seemed to get beyond that barrier which he had laid down . |
| 12 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 13 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 14 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 15 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |
| 16 | ah , she was getting out of there |
| 17 | Sorry , I was dozing off over there . |
| 18 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 19 | Gary Kelly continues to impress too , though he missed probably the best chance of the night — he broke out in the middle of the pitch , was charging down with only Rik to beat when he nudged the ball just too far at the moment he should have shot past him . |
| 20 | But Ben was staring down at where his left hand had been only a moment before , sounding the chord . |
| 21 | There was no backlash in the large wheel , which was positioned conveniently whether the helmsman was sitting down to leeward or perched to weather . |
| 22 | ‘ Back there in the lift earlier you did n't instantly and gallantly leap to my defence and punch Florian on the nose when he was carrying on about how undesirable I am ! ’ |
| 23 | It was creeping down from outside , from somewhere far to the north , well up in the hills a mile or more away . |
| 24 | She was standing up in just her T-shirt , pants and socks . |
| 25 | Congress was banking on at least 12 seats here , but most observers think they will be lucky to get 10 . |