Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ilse wore no bra , and was twirling her panties around her head in no time . |
| 2 | Lydia was twirling her sherry glass and peering into it thoughtfully . |
| 3 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 4 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 5 | Whilst Hooker defended the Church 's beliefs and practices in the name of reason , Andrewes went further and boldly asserted that the Anglican Church was part of a Catholic and Universal Church and was maintaining its true traditions which had been corrupted by Rome . |
| 6 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 7 | One afternoon she was maintaining her usual bedside vigil when , with the strains of Madam Butterfly playing in the background , he opened his eyes ‘ and was back ’ . |
| 8 | Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate . |
| 9 | Consecrated in Winchester by the legate Henry of Blois [ q.v. ] on 20 June , Bishop William excused himself from the consecration of Fitzherbert in late September because of difficulties in his bishopric , where Cumin was maintaining his position by force and guile . |
| 10 | She 'd had enough of the pettiness of living with parents and the irrelevance of school was smothering her head . |
| 11 | Her head resting on her knees , she tried to contain the pain that was clenching her stomach muscles into a tight knot . |
| 12 | With her right eye , she saw the staircase before her , and the landing above , but with the left side of her sight , she was seeing her past replayed . |
| 13 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |
| 14 | It 's a surprise party , you see , and his first surprise was seeing your car blocking his garage . ’ |
| 15 | It was seeing his picture of ‘ Mountain Silence ’ made me long to see the darksome mountain-girt lake in its weird lonesomeness with an intense longing . |
| 16 | It was seeing his glasses that tore me apart . |
| 17 | While a court was being urged to hold Mr Tindell , 28 , in custody in May , detective Mr Weatherill was seeing his ex-wife . |
| 18 | I was seeing his pock-marked face through a red film of chlorine irritation . |
| 19 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |
| 20 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 21 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 22 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 23 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 24 | Patiently , steadily , he was easing his way back into her life , seeing her regularly , but not too regularly , and taking pains to get to know Dickie and myself , which was sensible since we were both important to Margaret . |
| 25 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 26 | So if the horse raised the note of the whinny when it was demanding its food , the message would change from ‘ I want my dinner ’ , to ( according to Blake ) : ‘ Where is my bloody breakfast , you fool , I 'm starving . ’ |
| 27 | The Italian was demanding his money back . |
| 28 | The claim that with his coming God was inaugurating his rule on earth laid him open to a charge of blasphemy , which was without difficulty transformed into a plea to the prefect Pontius Pilate that Jesus was instigating sedition . |
| 29 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 30 | The Public Prosecution Office was completing its investigations . |