Respuestas
1.- Ned was roaring.
2.- The steward was choking under his powerful hand.
3.- Conseil was trying to rescue his half-suffocated victim from the hands of the harpooner.
4.- I was going to join his efforts.
5.- Everyone on board believed they were pursuing a marine monster.
6.- She was going at the rate of thirteen knots under the pressure of her 1000 horse power.
7.- “…237 passengers she was bringing from Canada.”
8.- I was returning from a scientific expedition into Nebraska.
9.- “I was sinking .”
10.- Whilst I was observing it…
11.- The crew were waiting impatiently for their Captain´s orders.
12.- This time she was making nineteen miles and three-tenths.
13.- The wind was driving eastward.
14.- “…the luminous agent was escaping from a polished half globe,
15.- which was shining in the top part of the room.”
16.- “I was making these observations when…”
17.- “The funnels of the frigate were giving out torrents of black smoke.
18.- It was sleeping in its billowy cradle.
19.- Was it moving or was it motionless on the surface of the ocean, or deep in its dephs?
20.- “They were examining the situation of the vessel;
21.- and talking in their incomprehensible dialect.”
***A vuelo de pájaro saqué estos 21 ejemplos de verbos en pasado continuo del siguiente libro: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea de Julio Verne de la editorial de la colección Puffin Classics de la editorial Penguin Books*** ¡Debe haber muchos más verbos en pasado continuo a lo largo de todo el libro. Estos son algunos de los que vi mientras hojeaba las páginas del libro!