Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 2 | The 23-year-old was working on designs for two Theatr Clywd , Mold , productions and was just sticking together his model box when I telephoned . |
| 3 | To coincide with World Environment Day on 5 June 1989 , The Times published a survey which showed that the membership of fifteen green organizations was climbing towards parity with the membership of unions affiliated to the TUC . |
| 4 | A man at the sharp end of the drive to put information technology to work in Britain , Cracknell was commenting on plans by a big American semiconductor firm to expand its operations in the town . |
| 5 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 6 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 7 | Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 8 | In other words , we cite the rules governing the conduct of business in this arena of social life and show how the agent was acting in accordance with them . |
| 9 | Grandson Richard was looking at Masklin down the length of his nose . |
| 10 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 11 | Soon , the whole tunnel roof was collapsing on top of the ship . |
| 12 | Unease and uncertainty was growing among Boards of Guardians throughout the country about their future responsibilities . |
| 13 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 14 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 15 | A new and distinctive chapter was opening in relationships between the masses , more numerous , more literate , and better organized than ever before , and middle-class organizations and agencies who were realizing more urgently than ever before that new initiatives were needed to bridge the great abyss of class . |
| 16 | At the foot of the stairs , David was listening with interest to what her father was saying , a smile on his lips . |
| 17 | Only a trickle of cars was moving through Sandwich towards Royal St. George 's . |
| 18 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 19 | Their car was travelling towards York along the A1079 at Kexby when it was in a head-on collision with a Leyland articulated lorry . |
| 20 | ‘ The car was travelling at speeds between 50 and 60 mph . |
| 21 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , provincial ‘ conurbations ’ , all in the North , suffered appreciably more than other types of area in both absolute and proportionate terms ; the effect was devastating in view of their inherited history of decline and levels of unemployment . |
| 23 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 24 | In concrete terms , de Valera was acting on behalf of the established economic interests of rural Ireland , in particular the small landowners and small businessmen . |
| 25 | Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers . |
| 26 | Maisie was sitting in front of the television , glaring sullenly at a man in a pink tracksuit . |
| 27 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 28 | Later that year , when Beltrami was acting for McGuinness in another matter , McGuinness admitted his involvement at Ayr — information that Mr Beltrami was unable to divulge because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship . |
| 29 | We could not claim all the credit for this as our administration was coming to grips with the situation ashore . |
| 30 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |