Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were shooting in a hospital the next day . |
| 2 | She was picking at a leaf-taking the green out to leave a filigree of veins . |
| 3 | The House of Lords held that the minister could only intervene if there were reasonable grounds , namely that the education authority was acting in a way no other education authority would act . |
| 4 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |
| 5 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
| 6 | And in 1937 , just as their " reign " was coming to an end the Bugatti claimed one of racing 's greatest prizes by winning Le Mans with Wimille and Robert Benoist in the driving seat . |
| 7 | I was reading in a book the other day that if you get a bicarbonate of sodas , that 's baking soda . |
| 8 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |