Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to face him , staring into the grey eyes , thinking that , up close , he really was confusingly overpowering . |
| 2 | The scrap of paper was furiously filling up with pictures of trees and flowers , which Alyssia hardly looked at at all . |
| 3 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 4 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 5 | He had not gone into the house at all and now he was furiously driving off . |
| 6 | Two years earlier the CEGB was vigorously rewriting history . |
| 7 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 8 | It was intensely moving : all the more so in Zurich as the back wall of the theatre was lowered to reveal the morning sun glittering on the lake . |
| 9 | Maggie was thankfully drinking the tea , the pain-killer still on the tray , when Felipe arrived , knocking on the door and striding in when she opened it . |
| 10 | By 1982 , the Minority Rights Group in London was unofficially estimating the Muslim population was more than two million while the Christians numbered barely 1.5 million . |
| 11 | It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed . |
| 12 | Despite the call of duty , and the deep warm affection she had for her cousin 's little girls , every instinct Laura possessed was overwhelmingly urging her to leave this vehicle ; to put as great a distance between herself and Ross as she possibly could . |
| 13 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 14 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 15 | He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air , away from encroaching London suburbia , and he cherished a sense of belonging to another country — Cambria or Gwalia , Glamorgan or Gwent — in addition to the still strange city he was slowly beginning to explore along both banks of the Thames . |
| 16 | Dr Neil — she could not think of him as Neil — was careful to hold her in such a way that she felt no restraint , although his own self-control was slowly beginning to slip . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Sir Willie was slowly dropping off his disguise . |
| 18 | And now Withel was slowly getting up , a look of absolute hatred on his face . |
| 19 | Patrick was slowly taking off his clothes and Kate felt scared for a moment . |
| 20 | But it was slowly sinking , dragged down by the end of the Cold War and Far East competition . |
| 21 | His revenue was slowly sinking and his subjects had shown themselves resistant to demands for aid . |
| 22 | Before he had ever seen one , in the early days on HMS Beagle , Darwin worked out that fringing reefs , around islands in an ocean whose bed was slowly sinking , might maintain themselves at sea-level . |
| 23 | Despite the carpeted floor and the mules on her feet , Meryl already felt chilled , as if cold water was slowly rising up her legs . |
| 24 | On the contrary , he was slowly drifting higher , and sternwards . |
| 25 | I could only suppose that the collapse of space-time in my own day was slowly spreading outwards from source , like a bloodstain oozing across an old sheet , threatening many deep-seated continuities . |
| 26 | Above our heads a huge drum of paper , some twenty feet wide , was slowly tracking along on a conveyor . |
| 27 | Perhaps , as Mr Malik had suggested , he was slowly learning to surrender , and , by surrendering , to enjoy the sun , the blue sky and the sweetness of having , at long last , a girl to share his bed . |
| 28 | She brushed away the tear that she 'd been totally unaware was slowly trickling down her face . |
| 29 | As she watched she could see that the disc was slowly rotating — rather like a record on a turntable . |
| 30 | But Marie had seen what was wrong : the string of the balloon was slowly slipping through the baby 's fingers . |