Example sentences of "[det] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble . |
| 2 | During the war when so much was happening in terms of national legislation , the extension of planning powers and the marked widening of Government involvement in affairs of land and development . |
| 3 | Thus was the criminal equated with the Vietcong soldier , the only difference being that the former was struggling against capitalism on the home front . |
| 4 | Counsel submitted that two persons could not be found guilty of murdering the same person unless each was acting in concert with the other . |
| 5 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |