Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Smiling and apparently oblivious of her alarm that was rapidly turning into panic , Guido continued to guide her towards the sailboat . |
| 3 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |
| 4 | He had something up his sleeve … an idea had germinated and was already going into action . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 7 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 8 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 9 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |