Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 2 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 3 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 4 | He and British Lions rugby star Jeremy Guscott were taking part in the fourth annual British Shark Angling Festival off Looe , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 5 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 6 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 7 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
| 8 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 9 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 10 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 11 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 12 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 13 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 14 | One element of this was teaching English as a Second Language ( ESL ) to ethnic minority workers but the two-way nature of communication was recognised in the accompanying training for management , training staff and trades unionists . |
| 15 | It was ‘ obvious ’ to the speaker in the film version of Howard 's End ( who was talking about ‘ Meaning in Music ’ ) that Beethoven was depicting Goblins in the third movement of his Fifth Symphony . |
| 16 | David Harper was giving evidence during the 7th day of the trial at Bristol Crown Court . |
| 17 | Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow . |
| 18 | The detective was giving evidence on the fourth day of a trial in which Hepburn , 29 , of Alloa , denies that on a Saturday night last October he twice lured young women into his car by pretending he was a taxi driver . |
| 19 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 20 | Yet there is no evidence that jade from this source was reaching China before the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | An unsigned internal letter dated 13 February to the operations staff at MEHQ states that Stirling was making arrangements with the Eighth Army for further raids . |
| 22 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |