Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 2 | David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart . |
| 3 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 4 | By this time Lisabeth was sniffing dramatically into a wad of Kleenex and Fenella had an arm round her ( well , half way round — her arms are n't that long ) for comfort . |
| 5 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 6 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 7 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 8 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 9 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 10 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |
| 11 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 12 | A NURSE was recovering today after a nightmare knife attack in a Merseyside hospital lift . |
| 13 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 14 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 15 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |
| 16 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 17 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 18 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 19 | The string was walking round in a circle at the end of the gallops when Bill 's Audi drew up . |
| 20 | After closing time he was walking home with a friend when he felt an arm round his neck and was confronted by Simpson , who wielded the knife and demanded he hand over his jumper and coat . |
| 21 | A man has been raped by two other men as he was walking home through a town centre . |
| 22 | She was walking home from a party in the early hours of Sunday morning she 'd stopped to use the toilets in St Giles when she was attacked … |
| 23 | Imagine my poor Aunt 's reaction when told by a shocked neighbour that her eldest daughter was walking out with a Chinaman . |
| 24 | EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi . |
| 25 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 26 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 27 | He was thrashing about in a circle , trying to escape and kept shouting , ‘ Help me ! |
| 28 | Her world was opening up with a vengeance . |
| 29 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 30 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |