Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 2 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 3 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 4 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
| 5 | Smiling and apparently oblivious of her alarm that was rapidly turning into panic , Guido continued to guide her towards the sailboat . |
| 6 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |
| 7 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 8 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 9 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 10 | He had something up his sleeve … an idea had germinated and was already going into action . |
| 11 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
| 12 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 13 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 14 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 15 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 16 | It could fatten on coarser feed than the Durham and was early maturing for beef , and the oxen could be good draught workers as well as slaughter beasts , though the cows were not good milkers . |
| 17 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 18 | In the winter of 1940–41 , having moved to Shamley Green , he contracted influenza which he could not shake off : he spent half of January and most of February in bed , and was still recuperating at home in March . |
| 19 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 20 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 21 | ‘ I really believe they have not had any capital for twenty years , but were entirely trading on credit . ’ |
| 22 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 23 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |