Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Marie had seen what was wrong : the string of the balloon was slowly slipping through the baby 's fingers . |
| 2 | They collapsed on the ground , gasping , black in the face , their hair covered with charred paper that was slowly settling like a shower of tiny , black , bird 's wings . |
| 3 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 4 | The school 's identification of needs was slowly emerging through the environment which prevailed in the educational world during the last half of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 6 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 7 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 8 | Perhaps what was most lacking in the left 's criticism of A Very British Coup was any general discussion of the distinct importance of television as a medium and , more specifically , the question of what makes it such a potentially politically effective medium . |
| 9 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 10 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 11 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 12 | Secondly , I tried the 3-day diet which was so depriving during the diet days ( 3 days on , 2 days off ) that I still binged every week , felt terrible mentally and my weight fluctuated ! |
| 13 | The King 's actions in August 1931 are sometimes defended with the argument that he was merely acting on the advice of the party leaders . |
| 14 | Then , raking about in her mind , she said , ‘ I was merely thinking about the horse trekking . |
| 15 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 16 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 17 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 18 | This was all developing into a video nasty . |
| 19 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 20 | He was obviously serving as an example . |
| 21 | She scuttled across the road , dragging a reluctant Snappy who was obviously spoiling for a scrap , just as Ford reached his front gate . |
| 22 | He could hear shouting up ahead ; and there was a large gathering of people around a man who was obviously standing on a box of some kind . |
| 23 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 24 | There were n't many fashionables living on or near Dartmoor and Horatia was constantly complaining about the isolation . |
| 25 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 26 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 27 | The black , wet face pressed to the glass of the vizor was constantly changing with the movement of the slime . |
| 28 | The composition of the village was constantly changing as a result of short-distance mobility . |
| 29 | One may think that Tolkien was rightly pushing towards a clarification of his ‘ mythology ’ . |
| 30 | His body was entirely missing below the waist , the stump of his torso being plugged in to a cybercart of softly gurgling tubes , which he controlled with his one remaining flesh-and-bone hand . |