Quá khứ tiếp diễn trong câu thật
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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.308 câu)
And there was a silence, during which neither knew whether the arm or the hand within it were quivering most.
Từ trong câu: silence, neither, know, whether, arm, hand
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Monsieur Profond was swimming, heavily diabolical, before her.
Từ trong câu: swimming, swim, heavily
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And Soames was unloading the estates of his father and uncle Roger, and to some extent of his uncle Nicholas.
Từ trong câu: extent, unload, estate, uncle, father
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Inwardly she was glowing under that ardent embrace, tingling to her finger tips, every nerve thrilled by his possessive touch.
Từ trong câu: possessive, embrace, finger, tip, every, nerve, thrill, touch
F. E., -1939 Penny, The Outcaste - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
This liaison was running its ephemeral course just at the time when accident made him acquainted with his future wife.
Từ trong câu: ephemeral, liaison, run, course, time, accident, make, future
Frederick Lawton, Balzac - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I then hired to Wiley Kuykendall, who was buying and shipping beeves at Houston, at twenty-five dollars per month.
Từ trong câu: shipping, hire, buy, ship, twenty, five, dollar, per
Charles A. Siringo, A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Everyone wanted to go on board, and take a cruise, but as it was getting late, I could not consent.
Từ trong câu: everyone, want, go, board, take, cruise, get, late
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Farther on I saw a grove of mimosa trees, among which huge dark masses were moving in a deliberate way.
Từ trong câu: far, saw, tree, among, huge, dark, mass, move
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
It was taking wonderful flying leaps, apparently in a sitting posture, and got over the ground at an astonishing rate.
Từ trong câu: take, wonderful, fly, leap, apparently, sit, posture, get
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
When Marco entered the room, the heavily-built man with the pointed dark beard was standing by the easy-chair.
Từ trong câu: beard, enter, room, heavily, build, man, point, dark
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
An irritable old gentleman who was taking an invalid walk quite jumped with annoyance when the song suddenly trumpeted forth.
Từ trong câu: gentleman, jump, song, annoyance, old, take, walk, quite
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But throughout the entire day neither of them once referred to what they were doing as anything but "the game."
Từ trong câu: refer, throughout, entire, day, neither, once, do, anything
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She passed her hand over her face as though she were sweeping away the sudden puzzled trouble in her expression.
Từ trong câu: though, trouble, sweep, puzzle, expression, puzzled, pass, hand
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As the pale old man moved about, The Rat felt as if some religious ceremony were going to be performed.
Từ trong câu: perform, religious, pale, old, man, move, rat, feel
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They put them on the train, and soon both Marco and The Rat saw that something unusual was taking place.
Từ trong câu: place, soon, unusual, saw, on, put, both, take
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The boys were not playing, but listening to one of their number who was reading to them from a newspaper.
Từ trong câu: reading, boy, play, listen, number, read, newspaper
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The sitting-room door was locked, and the maps and documents, usually kept in the iron box, were being used.
Từ trong câu: used, document, iron, sit, room, door, lock, map
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Marco was telling him the story of his second and third visits to the inclosure behind the deserted church-yard.
Từ trong câu: desert, tell, story, second, third, visit, behind, church
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At length the four years, which were to terminate the labors of the holy man, were drawing to their close.
Từ trong câu: terminate, length, four, year, labor, holy, man, draw
Anonymous, The Life of Saint Columba, Abbot, and Apostle of the Northern Picts - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The piano wagon on which these men were riding was demolished as well as the piano, and the horse killed.
Từ trong câu: piano, demolish, wagon, man, ride, well, horse, kill
R. C. Richards, Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There were continual rumours that the Boer reinforcements were in view, that the Federals were massing for a desperate effort.
Từ trong câu: continual, reinforcement, rumour, rumor, view, federal, mass, desperate
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Boers were already buzzing along the bridge, manipulating with wire and explosive, putting the finishing touches on their design!
Từ trong câu: manipulate, buzz, already, bridge, wire, explosive, put, finish
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"The country and fields about Dundalk," he says, "were abounding in corn, which I allocated to the several companies, etc."
Từ trong câu: allocate, country, field, abound, corn, several, company
Anonymous, Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The faint, rank smell of the wild beasts mingling with the evening air, was instilling its intoxication in my brain.
Từ trong câu: instill, faint, rank, smell, wild, beast, mingle, evening
Walter, 1873-1956 [Adapter] De la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was always expecting letters, and always drumming on the table till the post-woman had called or gone past.
Từ trong câu: table, drum, expect, till, past, always, letter, post
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The spring evenings were getting bright and long when three or four ladies in calashes met at Miss Barker’s door.
Từ trong câu: spring, three, four, evening, get, bright, long, lady
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Goring, brilliant, careless, valiant, and self-indulgent was losing the West by his negligence, and alienating it by his oppressions.
Từ trong câu: alienate, indulgent, brilliant, careless, self, lose, west, oppression
Eva Scott, Rupert, Prince Palatine - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
To add to the general excitement, other men were beating drums and playing on a weird kind of stringed instrument.
Từ trong câu: drum, weird, add, general, excitement, man, beat, play
M. E. Hume-Griffith, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Nothing," answered Pauline, biting her lips to keep back surely the most unreasonable tears she had ever felt were springing.
Từ trong câu: unreasonable, nothing, answer, bite, lip, keep, back, surely
Compton MacKenzie, Guy and Pauline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was trying to squeeze a little margin out of his receipts before he did anything about getting the receipts.
Từ trong câu: receipt, squeeze, margin, try, little, out, anything, get
Lewis K. Urquhart, The Knack of Managing - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US