Example sentences of "was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |
| 32 | Dr Peter Brunt was seeing the Queen Mother this morning , when he would determine how long she would remain in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 33 | " The thing that impressed me most was seeing the pros in trouble get out of trouble , " he says . |
| 34 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 35 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 36 | Heartless thieves stole the pushchair of two-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Thomas Wright while he was seeing the doctor . |
| 37 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 38 | A television camera-man was circling the car slowly with a hand-held camera . |
| 39 | A man on horseback was circling the water , the reins slack in his hands to let his mount go at an idle walk . |
| 40 | This time a tiny replica of the survey vessel was circling the equator inside the orbit of both moons . |
| 41 | She was circling the room with an almost predatory air , examining each painting , each piece of furniture , and it was not appreciation that was etched on her face . |
| 42 | He was already determined to be a poet — between 1787 and 1789 he had composed An Evening Walk — and part of the aim of his 1790 long vacation walking-tour was to gather the material which was to form the basis of Descriptive Sketches . |
| 43 | Byrne 's intention was to gather the group together firstly for the burial of Hector , who was their scapegoat , and then five years later for the funeral of Phil 's mother . |
| 44 | In stressing the more ‘ reasonable ’ or rational character of African art , Picasso was underlining the quality that distinguishes it most fundamentally from Western art . |
| 45 | ‘ When the first maypole was erected the Gawthorpe people regarded it as a sign of their independent spirit . ’ |
| 46 | A master in each cathedral was to instruct the clerks , presumably also in the law ( Lateran Council can . |
| 47 | One of the objectives that the County Council has actually set when it declared the when it approved the outer route was to instruct the County Surveyor to seek ways and means of trying to increase the relief to Harrogate and Knaresborough er with an outer northern relief road . |
| 48 | Powell was reliving the afternoon of April 9 , 1988 , when he won the world 's greatest steeplechase on Rhyme ‘ N ’ Reason . |
| 49 | He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious , her neck in a ligature . |
| 50 | Meanwhile the passenger in the second car was reliving the horror of being towed at such great speed . |
| 51 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 52 | Less than two days since Paula 's death , and already her spirit was demanding the companionship of others on its journey . |
| 53 | The mob was demanding the eviction of Meshketians who had been temporarily rehoused in Parkent after being evacuated in February from other parts of Tashkent oblast ( region ) to escape pogroms against their communities . |
| 54 | Our best plan was to kill the pirates one by one until the rest ran off or sailed away in the ship . |
| 55 | All that remained after that was to continue the treatment until the lesions calcified . |
| 56 | Restoration of political harmony was essential , however , if Edward was to continue the war in France , and in re-establishing good relations between the king and the nobility the Earl of Derby seems to have played an important role . |
| 57 | But his only answer was to continue the rhythmic stroking of her hair . |
| 58 | The technical group was to continue the study of legal aspects of the disputed region and to report back . |
| 59 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 60 | While some cooperation and coordination in a specific sector might be possible , as long as the hope was to embrace the whole of Western Europe in its ambit , any scheme could only be minimalist . |