Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But today he was only doodling in the margin , leaving the black and white diagram empty . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 6 | Luke shows how the close relationship between God and Jesus was already forming in the twelve-year-old . |
| 7 | He was already standing in the doorway , looking at her , and looking damned pleased with himself , too . |
| 8 | Twoflower was already rummaging in the chest . |
| 9 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 10 | Dishy Malcolm was already working in the office , but Doreen had not yet arrived . |
| 11 | But she was too late : Trevor was already paddling in the treacle , and Maudie swooped down to pick him up . |
| 12 | Some kind of chemical toilet , scuffed white , was already stinking in the corner . |
| 13 | When he climbed into the driver 's seat he saw that McGowan was already sitting in the back . |
| 14 | When she hurried out to the car , carrying her drawing materials which she had shoved hurriedly into a canvas bag , Julius was already sitting in the driving seat . |
| 15 | Tempting as they undoubtedly were , she could do without two hunky and red-blooded blokes to add to the plates she was already juggling in the air . |
| 16 | By that time my eyes were wide open and I replied : " Oh no , sir , I was just leaning in the corner . " |
| 17 | Oh yes I was just reading in the Cosmopolitan how young men of eighteen and women in their late thirties are sexually compatible . |
| 18 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 19 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 20 | It was the same burden Northumberland was always singing in the north , and Hotspur from whichever front of his double responsibility was occupying his immediate attention . |
| 21 | The occasional black eye he had collected early on , when he was still at school , he had attributed to the fights he was always having in the playground , or on the street coming home . |
| 22 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 23 | Montaine was still living in the attic at the time . |
| 24 | In 1800 Thomas was still living in the house on the north-west side of Fountain Lane , then owned by Mrs. Hellier . |
| 25 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 26 | She was still looking in the mirror making sure there were no other tell-tale signs of the evening 's activities when the living-room door was thrown open and her mother , looking very stern , appeared . |
| 27 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 28 | She was still pacing in the sala when Felipe came back . |
| 29 | McGowan was still sitting in the back , Creed had moved into the front . |
| 30 | Ralph was still waiting in the doorway . |