Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 2 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 4 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 8 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 9 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 10 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 11 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 13 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |