Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burrow said society was becoming more demanding in its expectation of the police , and the entire attitude of individuals could be based on a single experience of meeting an officer . |
| 2 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 3 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 4 | The epidural was working and I could n't feel any real pain apart from the belt and I was lying there watching the monitor shoot up and down as the baby moved around . |
| 5 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 6 | She was lying there worrying about that when she started to feel these twinges . ’ |
| 7 | But when he thought he had reached the peak of his misery and was regretting ever coming to this place the rain started to slow and ease off . |
| 8 | He was getting nowhere making an appeal to their sense of order so he had to do something . |
| 9 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
| 10 | she was saying upstairs sitting in the bed saying do n't get a , do n't get a doctor |
| 11 | He was doing fine acquiring all the necessary disciplines in finance , sales planning , product development and personnel relations . |
| 12 | Karen … , ’ he paused , she was staring forward avoiding his eyes . |
| 13 | The air in the wood was damp and smelt of peat , the path was muddy and wet , and it was exhausting constantly pushing brambles and twigs out of the way . |
| 14 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 15 | They , of course , publish the Fodors travel guides , and Stan was sitting here nodding his head in agreement with that . |
| 16 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 17 | I was sitting there looking out of the window and suddenly this wonderful record came on . |
| 18 | and everybody who killed people got those nasty ones , cos I was sitting there thinking that , and I watched it through again why |
| 19 | I was sitting there loving it until I uttered the most embarrassing words of my life . |
| 20 | He was sitting there eating pie sandwiches . |
| 21 | Samantha all it , Mau Maureen , Maureen 's said he was sitting there eating and he went like this . |
| 22 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 23 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
| 24 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 25 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 26 | Chips was sitting there waiting for him . ’ |
| 27 | So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver . |
| 28 | he just said he was sitting there waiting to ma |
| 29 | She could think of only one reason why Barbs should have been jealous of her , and he was sitting there laughing at her . |
| 30 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |