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Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs .
2	X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door .
3	Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits .
4	They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement .
5	Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ .
6	They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings .
7	To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm .
8	It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable .
9	There was no readable expression on her face , but Marjorie felt an unease as she looked at her , as though the woman were watching her through narrowed lids .
10	She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence .
11	Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes .
12	She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her .
13	Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions .
14	She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop .
15	Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence .
16	Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought .
17	Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity .
18	However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war .
19	As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway .
20	and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country .
21	He was kissing her with small caresses of his mouth , teasing her cheeks and nose , tempting her brows and the corners of her mouth , so that her breath grew shallow and her body leaned against his solid frame for support .
22	She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train .
23	Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance .
24	Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance .
25	Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance .
26	The man was regarding her with natural surprise .
27	She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness .
28	He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes .
29	Beryl was watching him with suspicious eyes .
30	His lean and powerful body was relaxed in the black suit , long legs crossed towards her , chest turned towards her , and he was watching her with narrowed eyes , obviously rearranging his thoughts about her at a rate of knots .