Example sentences of "was [v-ing] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The Public Prosecution Office was completing its investigations . |
| 6 | Sharif alleged that the government was using its federal powers to try to unseat him by denying transport and access to credit to the industrial concern , Ittefaq , of which he was a partner , thereby adding further pressure in the federal investigations of Sharif and his supporters . |
| 7 | His tongue stroked briefly across the tender inner swell of her lower lip , inducing a tingling sensitivity , and then she was accepting its sinuous thrust against hers and along with it a wild pleasure , desire following only a heartbeat behind . |
| 8 | The Allied air forces were meanwhile continuing their hunt for the sites from which Iraq was firing its Scud missiles at Saudi Arabia and Israel . |
| 9 | He sounded half asleep and an approaching truck was flashing its lights . |
| 10 | Dun and Bradstreet said it was porting its Millenium financial and human resources package , which would be ready by year-end , and in the meantime has a gateway product allowing data access between IBM mainframes and HP systems . |
| 11 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 12 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 13 | And a hummingbird was building its woolly nest with some material from a visitors hat . |
| 14 | But it was an era when Belfast was building its reputation as an industrial centre . |
| 15 | Her beautiful soft face , illuminated by the intermittent glow of the fog light , was reflecting its own light of love . |
| 16 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 17 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 18 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 19 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 20 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 21 | Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea . |
| 22 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 23 | IT WAS WHILE ‘ I 'M TOO SEXY ’ was enjoying its long stay at number two beneath Bryan Adams that Richard Fm told the Sun that he was bisexual . |
| 24 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 25 | Until recently , AEI was handling its accounting using a combination of batch processing on the mainframes , mixing proprietary and third party software , plus locally sourced mini and PC-based packages . |
| 26 | The snake was biding its time . |
| 27 | He told me that Lambeth Palace was pursuing its own contacts in an attempt to locate Terry Waite . |
| 28 | The numbers attending fell short of expectations ; nonetheless the CP was pursuing its campaign to recruit 1,000,000 members in an attempt to persuade the government to hold a general election . |
| 29 | Already , the swift-moving German vanguard was groping its way into the Bois des Corbeaux ; the only wood near the Mort Homme , where those well-tried infiltration tactics could be used to excellent advantage . |
| 30 | Reporting a loss of $12.8m late yesterday , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said it was omitting its dividend . |