Quá khứ tiếp diễn trong câu thật
16.315 câu có mẫu này. Việc đang diễn ra tại một thời điểm trong quá khứ. Công thức: was hoặc were + V-ing.
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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.315 câu)
One could make out but little of detail; but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up beyond the second fence.
Từ trong câu: mass, pile, itself, make, out, little, detail, note
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
‘No,’ pursued Mr Boffin; ‘because that would express, as I understand it, that you were not going to do anything to deserve your money.
Từ trong câu: anything, understand, express, deserve, pursue, mr, because, go
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They seemed to divide the world into two classes of people; people who were making enormous fortunes, and people who were being enormously ruined.
Từ trong câu: enormously, class, divide, enormous, seem, world, people, make
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was panting, and could hardly speak; but, he showed a copy of the newly-printed bill that was still wet upon the wall.
Từ trong câu: pant, wet, copy, hardly, speak, show, newly, print
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘And I was stamping my foot and screaming, when he first took notice of me; was I?’ said Bella, contemplating the ankle before mentioned.
Từ trong câu: ankle, stamp, foot, scream, first, take, notice, mention
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Smoke was issuing from a high chimney in the rear of it, and there was the sound of a water-wheel at the side.
Từ trong câu: chimney, smoke, rear, issue, sound, high, water, wheel
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘It wasn’t what I was going to say,’ returned Fledgeby, who never would, under any circumstances, accept a suggested expression, ‘but you’re very complimentary.
Từ trong câu: circumstance, under, accept, complimentary, expression, go, return, never
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was doing it again and improving on the manner, at prayers, in his mental arithmetic, all through his questioning, all through the day.
Từ trong câu: arithmetic, mental, improve, do, again, manner, question, day
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were chatting on in this way, and John had suggested, ‘No jewels for your own wear, for instance?’ and Bella had replied laughing.
Từ trong câu: chat, way, suggest, wear, instance, reply, laugh
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Limpidly blue above them was the southern sky; on the heights the sunbeams rioted; below, half-hidden in the grass, swift brooks were babbling.
Từ trong câu: sunbeam, blue, above, southern, sky, height, below, half
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Dream Tales and Prose Poems - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We was huvvering around them a whole night and ’most a whole day, and had got to feeling real friendly with them, and acquainted.
Từ trong câu: friendly, feeling, around, whole, night, day, get, feel
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We was racing along like a prairie fire, but it never made any difference, we couldn’t seem to git past that center no way.
Từ trong câu: center, fire, race, like, never, make, difference, seem
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We see that we was making trouble, so we went up again about a mile, to the cool weather, and watched them from there.
Từ trong câu: watch, cool, see, make, trouble, go, up, again
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were developing in him, and the camp-life, replete with misery as it was, was secretly endearing itself to him all the time.
Từ trong câu: secretly, developing, misery, develop, camp, life, itself, time
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
By the middle of the second day he had been running continuously for thirty hours, and the iron of his flesh was giving out.
Từ trong câu: middle, continuously, second, day, run, thirty, hour, iron
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
White Fang grew stronger, heavier, and more compact, while his character was developing along the lines laid down by his heredity and his environment.
Từ trong câu: character, compact, developing, white, grow, strong, heavy, develop
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was behaving as a wolf-father should, and manifesting no unholy desire to devour the young lives she had brought into the world.
Từ trong câu: behave, wolf, father, desire, young, live, bring, world
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was learning to calculate his own muscular movements, to know his physical limitations, to measure distances between objects, and between objects and himself.
Từ trong câu: limitation, physical, muscular, measure, calculate, learn, movement, know
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He warn’t hearing a word Lem Beebe was saying; and when he got through he was still in that brown-study, just the same.
Từ trong câu: through, when, hear, same, still, hearing, word, say
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And when that lawyer was done telling the jury what he was going to prove, he set down and begun to work his witnesses.
Từ trong câu: prove, jury, lawyer, tell, go, set, down, begin
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And indeed it was time, for the wound that Detchard had given me was broken forth afresh, and my blood was staining the ground.
Từ trong câu: wind, blood, indeed, break, given, broken, ground, stain
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The lady, it appeared, was back in Paris, but was living in great seclusion--a fact for which gossip found no difficulty in accounting.
Từ trong câu: gossip, living, lady, appear, back, live, great, fact
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had heard us, and was battling and raging with the locked gate, hammering it and firing into the keyhole like a man possessed.
Từ trong câu: battle, gate, possessed, possess, hear, lock, fire, like
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The binding cement had decayed, and the air imprisoned and comprest within the interstices by the waves was disintegrating the structure slowly but surely.
Từ trong câu: imprison, bind, decay, air, wave, structure, slowly, surely
Francis W., 1851-1919 [Editor] Halsey, Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Nothing on earth can stop me now,” he added, and paused, looking fixedly at his wife, who was looking fixedly at a blank wall.
Từ trong câu: blank, nothing, earth, stop, now, add, pause, look
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her black glance followed that man who was asserting his impunity—the man who had taken poor Stevie from home to kill him somewhere.
Từ trong câu: kill, assert, somewhere, black, glance, follow, man, take
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She passed close to a little group of men who were laughing, but whose laughter could have been struck dead by a single word.
Từ trong câu: laughter, pass, close, little, group, man, laugh, strike
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
To come upon his pallid face, with its big eyes gleaming in the dusk, was discomposing; to think of him up there was uncomfortable.
Từ trong câu: uncomfortable, come, face, big, eye, think, up
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A great light, which had blessed the world, and which the mourners had but yesterday hoped might long bless it, was waning fast away.
Từ trong câu: wane, great, light, bless, world, yesterday, hope, long
Anonymous, Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The water was running over the roadway several inches deep, carrying with it a mass of garbage and filth which only Arab villagers would tolerate.
Từ trong câu: garbage, villager, water, run, several, inch, deep, carry
W. T. Massey, How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US