Example sentences of "and was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 2 | The sixth medium featured on the tape , recorded in January last year , said the dog she ‘ saw ’ had a short tail and was pushing her head into Tom 's hand , which Tom confirmed as typical Border Terrier behaviour . |
| 3 | ‘ The medical wagon 's arrived , ’ the woman beside her said , but Ashley had grabbed up her jacket , jumped to her feet and was pushing her way out along the row . |
| 4 | He had swum to the raft , put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs . |
| 5 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 6 | He began as deputy to Sir Michael Checkland and was appointed his successor without any other candidates being interviewed . |
| 7 | Dulled since meeting Terry Rourke , it had inconveniently come to life again , and was telling her things about life — and Havvie — which she did not wish to know . |
| 8 | Simon glanced round at Tony , the owner 's son , who had stopped reading his comic and was watching them both , curiously . |
| 9 | He glanced across at her : she had stopped playing and was watching them , and the resemblance of her to Martha was so strong that all the old bitterness and resentment flooded suddenly back . |
| 10 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 11 | She had returned to the window and was watching me photograph the posters . |
| 12 | She was still crying when she suddenly noticed Gabriel Oak , who had come up the path on his way to the church , and was watching her sympathetically . |
| 13 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |
| 14 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 15 | He had finished rubbing his face and head , and was drying his arms and chest . |
| 16 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 17 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 18 | Uzbekistan took control of all union enterprises on its territory and was to conduct its own foreign policy . |
| 19 | I went to help a youth and was comforting him . |
| 20 | With acclaim like that , Beatty 's agent immediately put a pricetag of $300,000 a picture on his head — and was getting it . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 22 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 23 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 24 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 25 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 26 | He argued with her silently , pointing out that by any normal standards she was doing all the wrong things and was allowing her story to end badly or wrongly . |
| 27 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 28 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 29 | His wife had finished gathering the curd and was wiping her hands on her apron . |
| 30 | Ilse wore no bra , and was twirling her panties around her head in no time . |