Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 2 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 3 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 4 | It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity . |
| 5 | Mr Smith said that , in the private sector , jobs were threatened by the recession which was causing some parents to transfer their children to State schools . |
| 6 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 7 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 8 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 9 | May I ask in whose honour you were playing those pipes ? ’ |
| 10 | A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ . |
| 11 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 12 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 13 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 14 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 15 | He had become the singer with a group which was exciting some interest among the A&R men and women of London 's record companies , including Steve Lewis , the head of Virgin 's music publishing company . |
| 16 | We report a patient with visual failure and optic atrophy who was receiving long term chlorambucil for a low grade non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma . |
| 17 | At one venue we were having two conferences three months apart . |
| 18 | And it was telling you you know say they were , for argument 's sake they was buying this house that was sort of up north and that . |
| 19 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 20 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 21 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
| 22 | John Lindsay , vice-chairman of CIPFA 's Scottish branch , said that if cost was a factor which was driving local government reorganisation then it was important that ministers and officials of the Scottish Office had the best information available . |
| 23 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 24 | There was some concern expressed at the Director being singled out for criticism , but the Chief Officer considered that the criticism was necessary ‘ since it was the leadership which was stifling academic development and progress ’ . |
| 25 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 26 | Last year 15 year old Joanna Hughes died from burns , after fumes from the solvent she was sniffing caught fire . |
| 27 | The person who was putting one step in front of the other across the field to the lane was not me , somehow . |
| 28 | " Everything all right , Hank ? " he said to the gentleman who was holding this artillery piece in his hand . |
| 29 | Many years later , in the mid-eighties , John Malkovich , who was rehearsing Death of a Salesman with Dustin , remarked , ‘ One night we were playing Trivial Pursuit . |
| 30 | So under the unlikely moon they were talking marital shop . |