Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna was already opening the second envelope . |
| 2 | She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway . |
| 3 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 4 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 5 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 6 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |
| 7 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 8 | I was now approaching the eighth green , a plateau with four deep bunkers cut into the face and sides and a pronounced slope at the back if you overshot . |
| 9 | In any case , there was no escaping the next move . |
| 10 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |