Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wo n't try that yet , ’ said Fenella , who was rather enjoying riding the horse , but was not sure how she might get on with whatever was a gallop . |
| 2 | The key question here — and it is not easy to answer — is whether Edinburgh , by employing Women in the period from the 1870s to the 1900s , was attracting more work than it otherwise would have from London and other publishers ; or whether it was merely managing to prevent the work leaving Edinburgh altogether for cheaper printing centres . |
| 3 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |
| 4 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 5 | He felt Simon was only trying to prolong the visit . |
| 6 | Cranog Jones says he was only trying to de-tune the engine . |
| 7 | The ethnic Albanian ministers had been tendering their resignations one by one since late March [ ibid. ] , and in passing a vote of confidence in the Kosovo government the provincial Assembly was apparently acting to prevent the government being left in the hands solely of its ethnic Serb members . |
| 8 | He was desperately trying to kick the habit on his own , but he needed moral support and someone to keep an eye on him . |
| 9 | As she headed for the stairs her mind was already trying to calculate the time since the call . |
| 10 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 11 | Among their reasons for submitting was a fear that outlawry would lead to the destruction of the church ; in February the king was already threatening to make the outlawry permanent , and in March even the archbishop had his horses seized by royal officers while he was en route from Maidstone to London . |
| 12 | Ms Kennedy said that coupled with the suggestion — left over from a case in 1976 — that woman and boys tend to lie , this initial suggestion of doubt can be an ‘ appalling ’ for the victim , who was already having to relive the ordeal in court . |
| 13 | Tie the , I was just trying to tie the submission back to the , to the situation in which we are presently in |
| 14 | ‘ In the first set , I was just trying to get the ball back in play but in the third set my confidence really came back , ’ he said . |
| 15 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 16 | I was just beginning to understand the power of the mind . |
| 17 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 18 | I was just going to grab the book . |
| 19 | He was just turning to leave the room when the door opened and Iris appeared . |
| 20 | I was not striving to record the truth , but a truth — my own . |
| 21 | Mr Pullar said the league was not trying to buck the council but the council did not appear to feel it could offer the league the facilities at reasonable prices . |
| 22 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 23 | He was not attempting to pick the team for tonight 's First Division match against Wimbledon . |
| 24 | The former Soviet Central Asian leaders emphasised that the meeting was not attempting to undermine the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) . |
| 25 | It should perhaps be added that Stewart was not attempting to enter the service at a higher than normal rank , for fusilier regiments did not employ the rank of ensign , the equivalent rank being that of second lieutenant , which was what was sought . |
| 26 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 27 | She was not going to spend the remainder watching others do the work . |
| 28 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 29 | If it had a secret she would do her best to discover it and she was not going to miss the trail across the Mountains of the Moon to what was undoubtedly the greatest small picture in the world . |
| 30 | Her mother was not going to miss the opportunity of rebuking her . |