Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 2 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 7 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 8 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A young peasant boy had remounted his lathered horse and was galloping away from the priory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 16 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 17 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 18 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 19 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |