Example sentences of "[that] was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George had no idea about the rave that was just beginning in Woodham Woods . |
| 2 | But in fact George Brown had a considerable edge over Labour 's later candidate , David Owen , who offended the mandarins of King Charles Street with a quiet deliberation that was wholly lacking in George even in his most sober moments . |
| 3 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
| 4 | Smiling and apparently oblivious of her alarm that was rapidly turning into panic , Guido continued to guide her towards the sailboat . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , there is an atmosphere of optimism that was totally lacking in London ’ . |
| 6 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 7 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |