Quá khứ tiếp diễn trong câu thật
16.308 câu có mẫu này. Việc đang diễn ra tại một thời điểm trong quá khứ. Công thức: was hoặc were + V-ing.
Nhãn do quy tắc chữ gán tự động và ưu tiên độ chính xác hơn độ phủ, nên nhiều câu đúng mẫu vẫn chưa được gán nhãn.
Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.308 câu)
We were saying, when we spoke of the subject-matter, that we had no need of lamentation and strains of sorrow?
Từ trong câu: lamentation, say, speak, subject, matter, need, strain, sorrow
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, The Republic - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They would answer, as I should conceive, that they were speaking of those numbers which can only be realised in thought.
Từ trong câu: realise, conceive, answer, speak, number, think
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, The Republic - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her ever-sensitive lip began to quiver, and her eye to blink, at something this reproof was deciding her to say.
Từ trong câu: blink, ever, sensitive, lip, begin, quiver, eye, something
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Having seen the school-master depart, they were summing up particulars of the event, and indulging in predictions of his future.
Từ trong câu: prediction, event, future, depart, sum, see, school, master
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“I was referring to our old question.
Từ trong câu: refer, old, question
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It depended on your point of view to define that: he was just living for the first time: not wasting life.
Từ trong câu: waste, define, depend, point, view, live, first, time
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Courting in such a businesslike aspect as it evidently wore to the speaker was the last thing he was thinking of.
Từ trong câu: court, evidently, aspect, speaker, wear, last, thing, think
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Already at a point, was setting forth.
Từ trong câu: point, setting, forth, already, set
William Shakespeare, Macbeth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Lapham was smoking at great ease, and his wife had some crocheting on the other side of the lamp from him.
Từ trong câu: lamp, smoke, great, ease, wife, side
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Mamma," said Irene, when she was hurrying their departure the next morning, "what did she tell him when he asked her?"
Từ trong câu: hurry, departure, next, mamma, morning, tell, ask
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She sat in the chair where she had sat the other night, but she was not playing with a fan now.
Từ trong câu: fan, sit, chair, night, play, now
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Bellingham was, in his way, part of that conspiracy by which Lapham's creditors were trying to drive him to the wall.
Từ trong câu: wall, drive, trying, part, way, try
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was really building several other houses, but he gave the Laphams the impression that he was doing none but theirs.
Từ trong câu: building, theirs, build, impression, several, none, really, house
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The dark figures, stationary on the rocks, began to move, and he could see that they were coming toward the house.
Từ trong câu: figure, house, toward, begin, rock, dark, move, see
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then again they were running, the unwavering line of thirty men, but with a difference which the outlaws might not mistake.
Từ trong câu: unwavering, again, run, line, thirty, man, difference, outlaw
Jackson Gregory, The Bells of San Juan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The road was winding and steep, dipping down to the swift little stream that twists a turbulent passage through the town.
Từ trong câu: turbulent, road, wind, steep, dip, down, swift, little
Various, New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton.
Từ trong câu: recover, wish, get, better, attachment, herself, mr
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Poor old Mrs. Bates, civil and humble as usual, looked as if she did not quite understand what was going on.
Từ trong câu: humble, civil, poor, old, mrs, usual, look, quite
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Oh, dear,” cried Harriet, “now I recollect what you mean; but I was thinking of something very different at the time.
Từ trong câu: recollect, dear, cry, now, mean, think, something, different
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In others two young men were confabulating quietly but with a most dissipated air, heads together over a brace of glasses.
Từ trong câu: confabulate, other, young, man, quietly, air, head, together
Louis Joseph Vance, The Day of Days: An Extravaganza - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It never occurred to Pierre Duval, as he trudged those long kilometers toward the front, that he was doing a penance.
Từ trong câu: kilometer, never, occur, long, toward, front, do
Henry Van Dyke, The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Novelty was beckoning to them as usual.
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.
Từ trong câu: placidly, long, himself, stare, conviction, child, fear
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.
Từ trong câu: soon, shadow, behave, tooth, properly, cry, though, still
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet.
Từ trong câu: quiet, enough, really, think, now, talk, strike, tinker
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
Từ trong câu: rate, go, round, island, meet, because
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was swimming to the boat, and as his men showed a light to guide him he had soon reached them.
Từ trong câu: guide, swim, boat, man, show, light, soon, reach
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
Từ trong câu: tail, next, kite, interest, moment, pull, toward
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And it was seeing that she had not yet begun to con the alphabet of true knowledge, that disturbed me most.
Từ trong câu: con, see, begin, alphabet, true, knowledge, disturb
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mrs. Palmer’s information respecting Willoughby was not very material; but any testimony in his favour, however small, was pleasing to her.
Từ trong câu: material, pleasing, small, testimony, information, mrs, respect, favor
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US