Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected . |
| 2 | Bozer was apparently acting in protest at not having been fully consulted by President Turgut Özal on Turkey 's stance in the current Gulf crisis . |
| 3 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 4 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 5 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 6 | Behind them , gunfire was already rumbling like thunder on the edge of the city . |
| 7 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 8 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 9 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 10 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |
| 11 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 12 | Beida was just falling in line by removing the large statue , it was argued . |
| 13 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 14 | I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ? |
| 15 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 16 | Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ? |
| 17 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 18 | Her father , a farmer from the Hartbeespoort Dam area , north west of Johannesburg , was yesterday appearing in court on possible murder charges . |
| 19 | During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it . |
| 20 | In the winter of 1940–41 , having moved to Shamley Green , he contracted influenza which he could not shake off : he spent half of January and most of February in bed , and was still recuperating at home in March . |
| 21 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 22 | Jimmy was still looking in horror at the wall where Frye had disappeared . |
| 23 | This landlord was clearly profiting from involvement in the market in basic foodstuffs : a market which stray references in contemporary chronicles and letters show to have been lively in the Seine basin during the ninth century . |
| 24 | By chance , the Museum was also acting as host to a large delegation of Mayors and Councillors from the surrounding area and it is hoped that the significance of the presentation rubbed-off on them . |
| 25 | My legs were shaking , I could see that he was nearly bursting with excitement at having something to tell me that I did n't already know . |
| 26 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |
| 27 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 28 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 29 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 30 | Could n't they see that he was simply dying for want of a word from Kee , that not seeing her or being able to write or talk to her was killing him , and that nothing else mattered ? |