Example sentences of "was [v-ing] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 3 | Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done . |
| 4 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 5 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 6 | The movement was founded by George Fox , who was walking one day on Pendle Hill when , as he said , the sky opened and the Lord showed him a great multitude of people waiting to be saved . |
| 7 | Adam was snoring one morning this week . |
| 8 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 9 | She was winding one end of it into a little ball . |
| 10 | Rather than being the workshop of the world , Britain was becoming one of the world 's secretarial colleges , with priority given to non-manual clerical and service occupation . |
| 11 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 12 | She slept lightly now , in any case , and she reflected that dawn was becoming one of her better known times of the day . |
| 13 | and second time was , was returning one of my phone calls |
| 14 | Roger Yeoman was passing one morning , and just happened to notice movement under the surface . |
| 15 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 16 | I called several hours later , by which time she had calmed down a little , but was smoking one cigarette after another . |
| 17 | I was testing one of the new Telex ANR noise-reducing headsets during this flight , making the Aircoupe eerily quiet — almost like being inside a cathedral . |
| 18 | You could see Murray was going one day , probably without even noticing , to do someone some permanent damage . |
| 19 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 20 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 21 | The bruises on his wrists showed like diamonds beneath Boy 's cuff ; he was wearing one of O 's white shirts , with the sleeves rolled down . |
| 22 | The bastard was wearing one of my green waistcoats , too . |
| 23 | She was wearing one of the Rabbit 's white gloves . |
| 24 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 25 | Graver even than usual , he was wearing one of his greyer suits . |
| 26 | He was wearing one of my father 's ties . |
| 27 | He was wearing one of his Savile Row suits , the cut of that grey cloth superb , fitting his muscular body to perfection . |
| 28 | Richard Coburn was wearing one of the T-shirts the day police arrested him . |
| 29 | Each was wearing one half of a pair of tights over his head . |
| 30 | Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement . |