Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 2 | I felt as if someone was pressing my lungs with a steam-iron . |
| 3 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 4 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 5 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 6 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 7 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 8 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 9 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 10 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 11 | The woman was wiping her eyes on a screwed-up tissue . |
| 12 | With the knowledge , half admitted , that she was treating her friends in a pretty shitty way , and did n't deserve to have them , Cassie resolved to phone Stephanie on her return and arrange a meeting . |
| 13 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 14 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |
| 15 | As Roger Forester was closing up the cottage behind him DI Mike Schaffer was swinging his legs off a creaking camp-bed in the office of the Langstone schoolhouse and sitting groggily upright . |
| 16 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |
| 17 | I believe I was collecting my thoughts for a renewed effort when the young gentleman suddenly rose to his feet , and clutching his attaché case to his person , said : ‘ Well , I think I 'll go and take a little fresh air . |
| 18 | At British level Rob was finding his feet as a coach , but found the initial lack of funding frustrating . |
| 19 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 20 | One month later , the young wife of a senior member of the Politburo was astonishing her friends with a necklace , earrings and bracelets of positively Tsarist splendour . |
| 21 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 22 | The meeting was being held in the dining-room , and he was leaning his haunches against a table at the very front of the room , looking extremely cool and self-possessed . |
| 23 | The last fish he had landed was a magnificent sea-trout weighing 6lb and , as he applied the priest , he was telling his companions about a similar fish , caught by his father in the dim and distant past : ‘ A beautiful fish , gentlemen , just like this one is . ’ |
| 24 | Even now , with Nicaea descending into a maelstrom of violence and recrimination , the head of the Justice Police was concentrating his energies on a series of grizzly murders . |