Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness .
2 As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me .
3 The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism .
4 And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now .
5 The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure
6 Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " .
7 He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer .
8 When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there .
9 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
10 A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him :
11 Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York .
12 It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me .
13 It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before .
14 You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table !
15 Calderpark Zoo in Broomhouse was building up a collection of small furry things and a few larger ones , and Easterhouse , Garthamlock and Ruchazie were still bramble-filled lanes between the Edinburgh Road and Stepps .
16 Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 .
17 The Committee decided to form a government and by Wednesday 1 March Miliukov , who had emerged as the dominant figure , was drawing up a list of potential cabinet ministers .
18 Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review .
19 There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters .
20 In general the effect of the Commission 's inflated purchasing ability was to drive up the price of land in the borders .
21 The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity .
22 One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’
23 Barefooted and bare-armed , she was bringing in the cows from the fields for milling .
24 On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions .
25 ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society .
26 cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd
27 The 28-year-old was walking along a footpath near Pendleton Road , Darlington , when the was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground .
28 Doddy 's first job was to find out the extent of the Guinness brand 's availability .
29 He was knocking back a bottle of vodka each morning while he was making The Devil 's Brigade .
30 Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances .
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