Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 2 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 3 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 4 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 5 | On top of all his other commitments , Lewis was writing the second volume of his space trilogy . |
| 6 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 7 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 8 | Dexter was pulling the last layer of bandages away , using the scissors to snip off any loose pieces , exposing the face beneath . |
| 9 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 10 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 11 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 12 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 14 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 15 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 16 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 17 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
| 18 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 19 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
| 20 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 21 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |