Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 2 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |
| 3 | Kopyion was kneeling as if in prayer . |
| 4 | Now , for reasons she still could n't fully fathom , she was lifting curtains to reveal all to a man who was , in truth , little more than a stranger — and he was reacting as if he were a long-lost brother . |
| 5 | Sue sat quietly and smiled while this was happening as if she had nothing to do with the incident . |
| 6 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 7 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 8 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 9 | I was living as if dependent upon his need of me . |
| 10 | And this year 's general trade was looking as if it might not equal last year 's , until Monday 21st December , when , with many companies and all the schools having closed , panic buying on an old-fashioned scale happened , ’ reported John Lauder . |
| 11 | Hannah Dooley was looking as if she might do something usefully hysterical at any moment . |
| 12 | looking at me as if hey erm and all this like you know she was looking as if |
| 13 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 14 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 15 | Corbett took his seat , trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing . |
| 16 | He 'd been a bit scared of her before , but he was even more so now she was acting as if she was n't right in the head . |
| 17 | But Patrick was acting as if he lived her kind of life , which indeed he had once . |
| 18 | Athelstan could have sworn he was acting as if there was someone else there . |
| 19 | She had tried to help Carolyn , and now the bloody girl was acting as if Clare was a bossy teacher . |
| 20 | Yes , well , I mean I 'm very happy to be able to agree totally with that erm , people who make the laws are n't the people who suffer from the the physical , and matters might be a great deal better if erm , they paid a bit more attention , I do hope that he would agree however , erm , that police officers who are female also have a good effect on the streets , because he was acting as if erm , it was only the male person who were any use , and I 'm sure that is not so . |
| 21 | He was acting as if they had a settled relationship , but they had n't . |
| 22 | Lessing 's close-set eyes followed him , and Nathan Holland who was hurrying after lest Paul slip on the stairs . |
| 23 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |
| 24 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 25 | Yeah and bus stopped and I said it was going to cos we |
| 26 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 27 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |
| 28 | He was speaking as if Gentle would agree to the rendezvous , which , though he had n't said so yet , he would . |
| 29 | Her legacy from the hot three-month affair is fame — the very prize she was striving for before she played bedroom games with the Minister for Fun . |
| 30 | but I ai n't had chance to say to you , but I was saying to cos when I called in and see you think about it he |