Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 2 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 3 | I could tell that my questioning was slowly turning off the taps of their charm . |
| 4 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
| 5 | But I could not make Adèle concentrate on her lessons because she was constantly talking about the presents Mr Rochester had promised to bring her . |
| 6 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 7 | ‘ She was only waiting for the kids to grow up and then she said she 'd leave me . |
| 8 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | Water was soon cascading down the stairs from the top storey . |
| 10 | But the local population was soon assembling at the stations to use the train for its own purposes . |
| 11 | replied that such students were excluded because they had not passed the Foundation Module , and the NEC was thus complying with the Rules . |
| 12 | What he wrote was already forming in the minds of married women torn between homes and the lure of careers , between the roles of sex objects or earth mothers . |
| 13 | The captain was already shouting at the sailors , and the ship was turning , turning to the west , away from the light . |
| 14 | Senior officer Ken Sweeney said that the prison was already operating within the provisions of the new Food Safety Act : ‘ Although we do n't have to , we already invite in EHOs because we have nothing to hide and are open to advice . ’ |
| 15 | Rosie was already rifling along the rows of dresses . |
| 16 | As I approach his car , Eddie was already going through the appointments for the day , studying customer record cards on which each call is recorded . |
| 17 | Lennon shook Nathan off but the boy was already leaping down the stairs to where Zambia was writhing on the floor . |
| 18 | But Peter was already hurrying down the steps and did n't give a backward glance . |
| 19 | He had found my rope , climbed out of the moat , and was already running towards the trees where I had left my horse . |
| 20 | She was already turning against the frills of earlier years , partly because they consumed so much factory time . |
| 21 | Bedford was already bursting at the seams with refugees of all kinds . |
| 22 | I was just thinking about the practicalities of it . |
| 23 | He smiled and nodded towards the stage , where Caroline was just disappearing behind the curtains . |
| 24 | I mean , pardon me , it 's not my habit , you understand , to pick up on other people 's phone conversations , I was just coming down the stairs here , I could n't — ‘ |
| 25 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 26 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |
| 27 | Old Will Shakespeare was forever asking about the murders I 'd investigated . |
| 28 | For male workers , however , employment was rapidly increasing in the areas of electrical appliances , transportation and furniture which first appear in the 1965 census as well as metal products and some of the areas traditionally open to women — chemicals , paper and rubber ( Chinchilla 1977 ) . |
| 29 | He was yesterday caring for the boys , aged four and six . |
| 30 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |