Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Item — Lady Eleanor was preparing to leave the priory and go to her secret admirer , but who was he ? |
| 2 | Ari was coming to like the idea of cornering the helpless Nathan with her whirlwind sexuality . |
| 3 | From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne . |
| 4 | From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne . |
| 5 | Creggan was beginning to read the windscape around him and to plan a route by it . |
| 6 | On June 11 Zaki described the first round of talks as " constructive " and denied that Pakistan was seeking to reverse the administration 's decision to suspend aid . |
| 7 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 8 | Even as she watched , the snow was beginning to cover the car . |
| 9 | Ogilvie had been executed for treason , but his real crime was refusing to acknowledge the king 's dominion in matters spiritual . |
| 10 | Differences stemmed also from reports that Bhutto was seeking to erode the influence of the Army in the formulation of the country 's policy towards Afghanistan and to adopt a more conciliatory approach to the resolution of the Kashmir problem . |
| 11 | While DUC members individually might have supported various other political campaigns such as CND and the anti-nuclear movement , they saw that success against uranium mining in Donegal would result only from a single-issue , locally-based and respectable campaign : ‘ The DUC was trying to get the support of the local community , was trying to get the County Council on their side and this was n't going to happen if you 're gon na have people running around burning JCBs ’ . |
| 12 | The matter had been raised in a petition to the parliament of 1305 , but was only confirmed now , presumably because , the papal see then being vacant , Edward was waiting to employ the statute as a lever on the new pope . |
| 13 | ‘ Hey , Ellen ! ’ the doctor shouted down to the galley where Ellen was trying to disguise the fact that the frozen steaks were being thawed in a microwave . |
| 14 | She was told that the charge was going to be for four days and Ganley was going to save the business . |
| 15 | Our administration was beginning to take the cutter service more seriously and we , serving officers , began to feel as though we were becoming a more permanent and desirable feature of Customs controls . |
| 16 | Soviet accusations followed that Washington was trying to create the basis for a military alliance through strengthening mutual dependence between its regional partners in an arrangement over which it presided . |
| 17 | Hayling explained further that if the GLC was going to support the venture , Walsh would have to get some newspaper professionals — or at least semi-professionals — involved , including , of course , Ben Lowe . |
| 18 | Mr Cross also denied that Mr Bond was trying to sell the painting himself . |
| 19 | Rostov 's left arm ached and he realised that Alexei was trying to exploit the weakness of his healed injury to make an early touch . |
| 20 | Their complaint was that the accountancy expert was going to interpret the agreement , which was a matter of law , and that he had announced that he would be assisted by a law firm . |
| 21 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 22 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 23 | Oh dear , Fenella was going to have the back of her legs slapped again . |
| 24 | Mick was trying to light the petrol stove . |
| 25 | That the local council was attempting to get the building listed . |
| 26 | Frost was beginning to whiten the ground beyond the rustling greenhouses outside Placerco , but the underground thermal grids laid a net of darker squares across the fields . |
| 27 | On this occasion the judge was trying to protect the reputation of the female defendant , but the enthusiasm of the popular press could not so easily be quelled . |
| 28 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 29 | Opposition came primarily from students but was minor compared with the pervasive feeling that the war was laying to rest the ghost of the unsuccessful US involvement in Vietnam 20 years earlier . |
| 30 | However , the shadow of war was beginning to cloud the cricket world . |