Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause , of course , but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp . |
| 5 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 6 | The police Sergeant was kneeling beside the wounded man , pressing a pad against his side to stop the flow of blood . |
| 7 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 8 | He heard Paddy 's whisper from where he was kneeling in the front row and it had quite a chilling effect . |
| 9 | The Sergeant was kneeling by the sprawled body of the fourth man present . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh ? ’ she questioned carefully , while her brain was rattling off the clamouring question — was he saying that he would give her a lift ? |
| 11 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 17 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Caspar was sniffing at the dead magpie . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 22 | She was hanging over the wrought-iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot-air balloons . |
| 23 | The foam lining was hanging from a split seam |
| 24 | Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels . |
| 25 | The mother , aged 22 , of Wolverhampton , had been stabbed to death and her husband , aged 30 , was hanging by an electric cable from a loft beam . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 28 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 29 | He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |
| 30 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |