Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 2 | The progressive realisation of the single market was already bringing benefits to industry and commerce in the EC , and industrial leaders began to share the conviction of the Commission and the Parliament that , without eventual EMU , the full benefits of the single market could not be garnered . |
| 3 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 4 | It was n't Rory Adam had set his sights on , it was the nightclub , and it seemed now that his first devious move was already paying dividends in loss of business for Rory . |
| 5 | Early in the present century S. Le Gall was still translating ch'i by matière . |
| 6 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |
| 7 | Carol White was still having problems with sequencing at three-and-a-half-years : ‘ Again and again , there are … indications of how slight is the small child 's sense of continuity ’ ( White , 1954 , p.56 ) . |
| 8 | Lord St Aldwyn , the Opposition Chief Whip in the Lords , was also taking soundings among Conservative peers-he consulted sixty-five of them . |
| 9 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 10 | ‘ Survivors , but embattled , ’ said Theodora to Cranmer who had got his head down and was experimentally working tufts of bracken into either side of his bit . |
| 11 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 12 | In another instance one major enterprise , previously run by the wife , was now suffering losses of stock . |