Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 2 | The string was walking round in a circle at the end of the gallops when Bill 's Audi drew up . |
| 3 | He was thrashing about in a circle , trying to escape and kept shouting , ‘ Help me ! |
| 4 | Gurder was lurking suspiciously in a patch of shadow by the door when they came past , arms and legs going like pistons . |
| 5 | I was sweating profusely in a wool shirt . |
| 6 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 7 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him , four hours after drinking with him . ’ |
| 8 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 9 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 10 | Oh Christ , there he was going round in a circle again . |
| 11 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 12 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 13 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 14 | Did n't we have to stop using it because Chrissy was coming out in a rash ? |
| 15 | He was doing so in a book which , in the main , attacked eugenics . |
| 16 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 17 | Brückner was sitting up in a chair . |
| 18 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal and wearing a delicate silk gown of pure white . |
| 19 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal — Yes , it was the one I 'd dreamt the night before I got my results . |
| 20 | Linton was sitting calmly in a chair near the fire , happy that –e was not being punished this time . |
| 21 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 22 | There was one point during my test when I was driving along and erm the I was creeping forward in a stream of traffic and the person in front of me had crossed the solid white line at some traffic lights and the lights changed and it would have been very easy to follow his lights and just carry on |
| 23 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 24 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 25 | For a while their favourite game was wheeling along in a cart Endill had made until Wednesday crashed into a mound of rusty bicycles and hurt his arm . |
| 26 | A detective constable was working away in a corner . |