Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 2 | In the autumn Richard took the cross at Tours , in the new cathedral which was rising in place of the old one where , sixty years earlier , his great-grandfather , Fulk V of Anjou , had lain prostrate before the high altar to receive the cross on the way to becoming King of Jerusalem . |
| 3 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
| 4 | There 'd been a slight brush with Gallaghers car which was going in excess of 40 mph . |
| 5 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 6 | Now the reason for the five thousand reduction there is that there is traffic or there was traffic that previously er came up the A sixty one but then went along Follyfoot Road which is the road you 'll see on the plan which parallels the southern bypass , and that is why up that very short section er there was this reduction er which was heading for points to the east , which clearly went on then to the southern bypass . |
| 7 | The innkeeper and the attendants were Yek , but the place was thronged with foreign traders , part of a caravan which was travelling from Kinsai to the western coast . |
| 8 | According to a report the next day on Soviet television a powerful home-made bomb had been placed in a carriage of the train , which was travelling from Georgia to Moscow . |
| 9 | Fourthly , it is obvious that the overall decline in birth rate and population growth which was occurring as part of the demographic transition to small birth and death rates was greatly exaggerated by the poor economic conditions and the unemployment of the inter-war years . |
| 10 | She ransacked the wardrobe which was bursting with piles of unwashed clothes and unironed shirts . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing has been shown about what was going in Brixton before April . |
| 12 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 13 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 14 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 15 | He still had difficulties focusing , but could tell clearly enough what was happening in front of him . |
| 16 | Blake could n't understand what was happening in front of him . |