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2.043 câu có mẫu này. Một việc ngắn xảy ra giữa lúc việc khác đang diễn ra, hoặc hai việc diễn ra cùng lúc với while. Công thức: was hoặc were + V-ing + when + quá khứ đơn.
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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (2.043 câu)
The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair.
Từ trong câu: curiously, flaw, sound, wind, listen, think, tear, hear
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Too indifferent at first, even to look round and ascertain who supported me, I was lying looking at the ladder, when there came between me and it a face.
Từ trong câu: support, ladder, indifferent, first, even, look, round, lie
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.
Từ trong câu: stupid, clumsy, natural, know, lie, wait, wrong, labor
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While considering her with these ideas, Betsey, at a small distance, was holding out something to catch her eyes, meaning to screen it at the same time from Susan’s.
Từ trong câu: screen, consider, idea, small, distance, hold, out, something
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When last she had seen him he was sitting in a corduroy jacket, fustian waistcoat and breeches, and tanned leather leggings, with a basin of hot furmity before him.
Từ trong câu: tanned, jacket, leather, last, see, sit, waistcoat, leg
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm.
Từ trong câu: pavement, afternoon, begin, october, traffic, become, tall, man
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hewet picked up one sheet and read, “A lady was walking yesterday in the streets of Westminster when she perceived a cat in the window of a deserted house.
Từ trong câu: cat, desert, pick, up, sheet, read, lady, walk
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Brigitta was just hanging out Peter's second shirt in the sun, so that he might have it ready to put on when he had worn the other long enough.
Từ trong câu: hanging, worn, shirt, hang, out, second, sun, ready
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
When she looked up from her page she saw that Becky had heard the sound also, as she had turned her head to look and was listening rather nervously.
Từ trong câu: nervously, look, up, page, saw, hear, sound, turn
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I only heard of it as a certainty just before I left; though I had thought things were drifting that way from their manner when I called on them.”
Từ trong câu: certainty, hear, leave, though, think, thing, drift, way
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When I found what they were doing there, and that it was an earnest Christian school, my whole soul was uplifted, and I determined to seek for better things.
Từ trong câu: uplifted, find, do, earnest, christian, school, whole, soul
Various, The American Missionary: Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.
Từ trong câu: trifle, dream, itself, window, nursery, blow, open, boy
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
One of the men, a big mulatto, almost hidden under the mass of glistening rosewood, was guiding its course, while the other two heaved and tugged in the rear.
Từ trong câu: guide, hidden, man, big, almost, mass, course, rear
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The other day, when I was looking at Michael Angelo’s Moses, I was seized with a kind of defiance--a reaction against all this mere passive enjoyment of grandeur.
Từ trong câu: reaction, day, look, kind, mere, passive, enjoyment
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One day Peter was going down to the village to get buns to celebrate the sensibleness of the Editor of the Children's Globe, when he met the Station Master.
Từ trong câu: globe, editor, celebrate, day, go, down, village, get
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His first glance was for Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes.
Từ trong câu: setting, apparently, whose, lifeless, glance, set, wet, first
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
While I was attending to those in front, and on either side, the one behind ran up with the handspike, and struck me a heavy blow upon the head.
Từ trong câu: front, attend, either, side, behind, run, up, strike
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The animal was wet, and lightly moved his white-tipped tail; while his dark-yellow eyes inquired of Felix what he was going to give a dog to eat.
Từ trong câu: inquire, animal, wet, lightly, move, white, tip, tail
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
All the French boys stood round, cheering and humping themselves up when Emil or Amédée went over the wire, as if they were helping in the lift.
Từ trong câu: cheer, boy, stand, round, themselves, up, have, go
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One day, I was walking along when I saw a mule big as an elephant with ears at least three feet long and eyes as big as auto lamps.
Từ trong câu: auto, day, walk, saw, mule, big, elephant, ear
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Nothing was said for some moments, while a succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it.
Từ trong câu: succession, nothing, moment, wave, roll, occasional, sea
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“My master, my dear master was cheering on his comrades with his right arm raised on high, when one of the balls whizzing close to my head struck him.
Từ trong câu: ball, master, dear, cheer, right, arm, raise, high
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But his box contained only a line of rapturous assent from Gerty, and he was turning away disappointed when he was hailed by a voice from the smoking room.
Từ trong câu: disappoint, smoking, disappointed, contain, rapturous, box, line, turn
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The uncle had moments of profound skepticism about this--moments when he uneasily wondered whether it was not going to be his duty to speak to the young man.
Từ trong câu: profound, duty, uncle, moment, uneasily, wonder, whether, go
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
By twelve o’clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunderstorms were going to begin.
Từ trong câu: twelve, shower, heat, occasional, thunderstorm, o'clock, sun, pour
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Two men were attempting to fill a Pierce-Arrow truck with gasoline, by the aid of a candle, when there was an explosion and the entire truck caught fire.
Từ trong câu: gasoline, man, attempt, fill, arrow, truck, aid, candle
Various, History of Ambulance Company Number 139 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When I entered his room he was sitting on a stool in the centre, with his elbows on his knees, and his face was the picture of sullen discontent.
Từ trong câu: stool, picture, enter, room, sit, center, knee, face
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm.
Từ trong câu: couple, wake, sleep, again, full, day, round, reach
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Last night, when I was wandering about, a girl spoke to me; and I tried to get back into the old way with her; but it was no use.
Từ trong câu: wander, last, night, girl, speak, try, get, back
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Little Flora Gordon was staying with the Misses Jenkyns, and when I came in she was reading aloud to Miss Jenkyns, who lay feeble and changed on the sofa.
Từ trong câu: aloud, sofa, little, stay, miss, come, read, lay
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US