Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried again to meet Norman 's eye but he was rather desperately keeping his attention on that slut Yvonne . |
| 2 | Watching Violet sitting through the preliminaries to the world title elimination bout was rather like watching her son as he prepared for the fight . |
| 3 | I was down there serenading my heart out and they all started to pop their heads out of the window . |
| 4 | The blue flames were quickly quenched with buckets of earth by the attendants , who crept back sheepishly , and the driver was soon calmly eating his soup with us again . |
| 5 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 6 | Seconds later she was once more revising her opinion . |
| 7 | He was just Margaret 's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand . |
| 8 | He had n't chucked her overboard bag and baggage yet , but he was probably only biding his time until they returned to their mooring . |
| 9 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 10 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 11 | The awful discovery that she 'd missed her last period and that , following their night of love and passion she was now probably expecting his baby was making Ross 's silence almost unbearably hard to accept . |
| 12 | Unknown to him Leopold had recently heard from another composer , Peter von Winter , who had crossed swords with Wolfgang in Mannheim , and was now maliciously taking his revenge . |
| 13 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 14 | Was there any by chance , any information that Mr was n't only sharing his flat with Mr but was also sharing his wife with Mr ? |
| 15 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 16 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 17 | Depending on your interpretation he was either cleverly biding his time , or drifting , baffled as to how he could top his past work . |
| 18 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 19 | However , by the time Huckleberry 's class was called some thirty minutes later , he had dissipated a lot of his anxiety through movement and was no longer putting his tongue over the bit . |
| 20 | Britain was no longer paying its way in the world . |