Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note . |
| 2 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 3 | The most interesting shows the upper part of a woman wrapped in a cloak , who was evidently standing in profile but turns her Daedalic face to us . |
| 4 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 5 | Though it was completely lacking in originality its publication in Western Europe drew the admiration of many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment . |
| 6 | Cowley picked up a photograph of a sombre looking man of about forty , his face registering all the discomfort he was probably feeling in wedding suit and stiff shirt . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 8 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |
| 9 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |
| 10 | He was just staring in disbelief . |
| 11 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 12 | He was so lacking in compassion , in basic humanity . |
| 13 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |
| 14 | He was still cursing in French and English . |
| 15 | A fresh look at the whole process was needed , and it was felt that this could be achieved by taking a systems view , unbiased by what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 16 | The next step was to relate this model to what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 17 | The conceptual line between the systems world and the real world was crossed at a later stage when the information model was used to explore what was actually happening in practice . |
| 18 | The next step was to compare the conceptual model with what was actually happening in practice , a process similar to that described in Chapter 9 , where the existing situation is considered in light of a proposed new system . |