Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 2 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 3 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 4 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 5 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 6 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 7 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 8 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 9 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 10 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 11 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 12 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 14 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 15 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 16 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 17 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 18 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 19 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 20 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 21 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 22 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 23 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 24 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 25 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 26 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 27 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 28 | Two young women were in the room ; one was reading a magazine , the other was stuffing herself into a tight corset of black vinyl that appeared to be a part of a stylised nun 's costume . |
| 29 | Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even . |
| 30 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |