Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later he was struggling under yards of silk only 20 feet down the other side of the hill , wrestling beneath the parachute like an actor in a soft porn film . |
| 2 | Elisabeth stretched out full length on the couch and listened as Gerhardt related , ecstatically , how her love was unfolding like buds in May . |
| 3 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 4 | Andrew Risdon , 14 , was walking with friends at Whitstone Primary School , near Bude , Cornwall , when the wall suddenly toppled . |
| 5 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 6 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 7 | His solicitor , Miss Ranj Matharu of Doberman 's , confirmed yesterday that Mr Gooch was pressing for damages for slander . |
| 8 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 9 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 10 | With the CEDA 's accidentalist tactic shattered by election defeat , the initiative on the right was passing to advocates of anti-Republican violence and conspiracy . |
| 11 | She nearly did not remember in time , because the similarity was such an unlikely one and she was hunting for pictures of hatred . |
| 12 | And Roland was looking for sources for Ash 's Garden of Proserpina . |
| 13 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 14 | When Nick Logan at NME advertised for ‘ Hip Young Gunslingers ’ , he was looking for kids like Parsons who could articulate the inarticulate : punk . |
| 15 | Recently , a friend of mine who 's a teacher was looking through files of exam questions stored on a floppy disk . |
| 16 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |
| 17 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 18 | Mikhail Shchadov , the Minister for Coal , told the Trud newspaper yesterday that so far this year , deliveries were 18.5 million tonnes less than planned , while 35 million tonnes of mined coal was lying at pitheads for want of freight rolling-stock . |
| 19 | Unease and uncertainty was growing among Boards of Guardians throughout the country about their future responsibilities . |
| 20 | While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble . |
| 21 | He was obliged to return to earth , however , by signs of excitement at the ramparts , which doubtless heralded another attack … and by the Padre who had asked him a question and was waiting with signs of impatience for his reply . |
| 22 | It also followed the announcement on May 10 that Krebs AG was withdrawing from negotiations with Iran for the sale of a highly toxic pesticide to that country . |
| 23 | He was speaking after meetings in Washington between Dunkel and US trade officials . |
| 24 | Even when I was coaching the national team in New Zealand I was coaching at clubs in Christchurch . |
| 25 | He was staying with relatives in Wimbledon on the day of the murder , July 15 . |
| 26 | Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers . |
| 27 | no she only works at nights and she was asking about nights for Carrie you see , cos I |
| 28 | Firstly , as a fairly recently promoted primary headteacher I was suffering from periods of anxiety about meeting the responsibilities of the post . |
| 29 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke was responding to calls from leaders of all the main Churches for the dispute to be brought to an end swiftly . |