Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 2 | The skraggin' o' the city was goin' good , from his point-a-view . |
| 3 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 4 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 5 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 6 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 7 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
| 8 | That there were clues put in here and there that things were not right , and that Jane was seeing all ? |
| 9 | He was seeing small things with such clarity now . |
| 10 | At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day . |
| 11 | Dr Newman was seeing five or six people each surgery with the same symptoms , and ‘ the pharmacist reported a flood of people asking for remedies ’ . |
| 12 | Against that there 'll be seventeen percent of this population was seeing home-helps , five percent was seeing social workers . |
| 13 | Yeah , I know , I did n't think she se , she did n't realise that you know that she was seeing this |
| 14 | Anyhow … the feeling in the water continued to indicate the away win , and the clincher ( for me ) was seeing 2 magpies sitting on a street light on the way . |
| 15 | Gwenellen was seeing next to nothing of her fiancé , Tom Lofthouse , as the surgical side was having another of its regular breathless rushes . |
| 16 | ‘ He was seeing some woman , like mother said . ’ |
| 17 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 18 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 19 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 20 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 21 | ‘ The club was struggling 18 months later and players were in a cushy position . |
| 22 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 23 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
| 24 | It was Ludovico de Severi da Bologna , the Latin Patriarch of Antioch ; and Nicholas , animated once again , was bestowing one of his broad , well-meaning smiles on the fellow . |
| 25 | Liartes , by far the most cautious of the two brothers , was circling high above them . |
| 26 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 27 | He was reliving last night : on the Wheel , in the tunnels . |
| 28 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 29 | Björling was drunk , according to Culshaw , Nilsson was demanding more money and the whole thing fell apart . |
| 30 | Hodge contended that if the Interim Committee failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion that it would be preferable to terminate UNTCOK , withdraw American troops ( even though the Soviet Union was demanding this ) , and press ahead with the establishment of a government in south Korea . |