Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 3 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 4 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 5 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 6 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 8 | The flags of all European nations were standing horizontal and cracking ominously above the hard and Lerissa , a handsome 52ft ( 15m ) classic sloop , was pitching wildly in the harbour mouth as other boats strained at their anchors . |
| 9 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 10 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 11 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 12 | He could hear the dawn chorus in full concert , and when he opened his eyes unwillingly light was filtering faintly through the curtains . |
| 13 | A young peasant boy had remounted his lathered horse and was galloping away from the priory . |
| 14 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 15 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 16 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 17 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 18 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 19 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 20 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 21 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 22 | Yet in racing , in export credit guarantees and elsewhere , the Chancellor was reacting late in the day to complaints that had been clearly audible for some considerable time . |
| 23 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 24 | It struck me that Taff no longer used his favourite cuss words , like the four-letter variety , and was sticking strictly to the bloodys with the very often repeated ‘ Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 25 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 26 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 27 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 28 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 29 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 30 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |