Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |
| 2 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 3 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 4 | Then she opened her eyes , and rose to her feet She was wearing a black shirt outside black jeans , with black ballet shoes . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , it 's bliss … ’ she began , then noticed Xanthe 's delicate widening of her eyes and a slight wrinkle of pale nose , like white jade , and noticed that on her fair curls she was wearing a small moulded felt cap , with a slantwise spray of fluffy feathers — ; egret ? — curving into her nape . |
| 6 | This evening she was wearing a little suit from a woman called Chanel , something that she had drabbled and subdued into an obscurity proper to its country background . |
| 7 | Before the accident he was enjoying a lucrative career on the Senior Tour . |
| 8 | In nearby Powis Square he was running a book-cum-record shop with John Michel , whose semi-mystic writing was to become a feature of It five years later . |
| 9 | His timing was impeccable attacking his old boss on the day he was making a big speech on the economy . |
| 10 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 11 | The Simonova was in almost perfect space equilibrium — like the platforms it was following a geostationary path almost thirty-six thousand kilometres above the equator of Tarvaras . |
| 12 | FOREIGN Office said last night it was sending a Royal Navy frigate and supply ship to help in Bahamas . |
| 13 | It is for these reasons that I felt then , as I do now , that in pursuing an industrial career I was performing a social service , of no less significance than my service in the armed forces . |
| 14 | This week she was considering a six-month temporary tenancy at the Grey Horse , Haughton Village , offered by Grand Met . |
| 15 | Wednesday was her day for replacing the flowers , and this morning she was carrying a small tissue-wrapped bunch of pink roses and one of small white chrysanthemums . |
| 16 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 17 | Porno Dreams were of a notoriously low standard , blurry beyond the bedroom , giving the dreamer the feeling he was dybbukking a deep-sea diving suit rather than a human body . |
| 18 | In between his teeth he was holding a huge knife . |
| 19 | The first time she met John Major he was wearing a brown suit and a pair of NHS specs . |
| 20 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was working in Bishopsgate I was using a different method , ’ Dexter explained . |
| 22 | Mark 's brother Tim said from the family home in Trewennack , Helston : ‘ Mark missed last Christmas because he was on guard duty so obviously this year he was making a special effort . ’ |
| 23 | No doubt he was getting a great deal of macho satisfaction at finding her at such a disadvantage . |
| 24 | Th , no he was telling the customer he was selling a million pounds worth of flour a year and that and I , I 've got a twenty first birthday er , you know , wi , coming up , party well after that . |
| 25 | A controversial memo to hospital consultants has been withdrawn after claims it was creating a two-tier health system . |
| 26 | immediately before that date he was undertaking a qualifying course of education , and |
| 27 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 28 | In Zborowski 's apartment in Nice , Modigliani drew a second portrait of Germaine , very similar , only this time she was wearing a black dress . |
| 29 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 30 | Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest . |