Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , raking about in her mind , she said , ‘ I was merely thinking about the horse trekking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were n't many fashionables living on or near Dartmoor and Horatia was constantly complaining about the isolation . |
| 16 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The black , wet face pressed to the glass of the vizor was constantly changing with the movement of the slime . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 22 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 23 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |
| 24 | But today he was only doodling in the margin , leaving the black and white diagram empty . |
| 25 | Joe said nothing and Maureen said anxiously , ‘ I suppose you think he 's weak , Joe , but what can he do ? she said when he went back that she was only teasing about the baby not being his ! |
| 26 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 27 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 28 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 29 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 30 | She was suddenly burning with the fire of a new task . |