Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simmons was struggling into a black gown . |
| 2 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 3 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |
| 4 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 5 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 6 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 7 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 8 | Her head , which was rotating at a different speed and a contrary motion to her brushing arm , reminded him of a duck in a shooting gallery . |
| 9 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 10 | The foam lining was hanging from a split seam |
| 11 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 12 | My wife was competing in a one-day event and I drove around the M25 to pick her up ’ |
| 13 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 14 | He was half-heartedly involved in a discussion on Mary Deare , who at this moment was speeding in a hired car towards Manchester to spend Christmas Day at the Midland Hotel with an unnamed friend appearing in The Tinder Box . |
| 15 | She was building on a genuine ritual of immemorial antiquity , that of Beating the Bounds . |
| 16 | Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer . |
| 17 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 18 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 19 | Farnham were without several of their leading players , including their captain G. Gooding , who was recovering from a broken leg . |
| 20 | A woman with hair the colour of the purplest of peacock feathers was singing on a yard-high rostrum . |
| 21 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 22 | In April of 1920 , Charlie Chaplin , then sweltering through the divorce proceedings brought against him by Mildred Harris , was eating in a fashionable hotel restaurant when he came face to face with Louis B Mayer . |
| 23 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 24 | I was walking through a busy suburb one evening with my girlfriend Jo . |
| 25 | I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village . |
| 26 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 27 | These critics did not perhaps all observe the extent to which Barth was opening up a new path , for no one before had handled the doctrine of the Trinity in this fashion . |
| 28 | Melissa 's mouth had dried out and a pulse was vibrating like a pneumatic drill somewhere near her navel . |
| 29 | For European nations , everything was happening on a grand scale : industrialization , urbanization , colonization . |
| 30 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |