Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 2 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 3 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 4 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 5 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 6 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 7 | Mitchum and Ford were greeted by Lila who was wearing white shorts and a bathrobe . |
| 8 | It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity . |
| 9 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 10 | Mr Smith said that , in the private sector , jobs were threatened by the recession which was causing some parents to transfer their children to State schools . |
| 11 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 12 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 13 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 14 | But the collapse of the junk-bond market is a big blow to the scores of companies which were planning new offerings . |
| 15 | They joined doctors and parents who were celebrating ten years of research into Rhesus disease.Nick Clark reports . |
| 16 | I shuffled towards Mick who was standing twenty yards off the road by the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 17 | May I ask in whose honour you were playing those pipes ? ’ |
| 18 | A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ . |
| 19 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 20 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 21 | Okay Although I 'm referring to Gibson 's work , I mean this was typical of the time , there were a number of other researchers who were using similar ideas and notations . |
| 22 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 23 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 24 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 25 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 26 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 27 | He had become the singer with a group which was exciting some interest among the A&R men and women of London 's record companies , including Steve Lewis , the head of Virgin 's music publishing company . |
| 28 | Their hired Vauxhall Astra which was travelling thirty miles an hour crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 29 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 30 | We were like , these geeks from Oldham who were doing psychedelic stuff . |