Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nastase had sublime skills but was careering around without much discipline and direction … a powderkeg temperament … an adorable , off-the-wall rogue . |
| 2 | Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage . |
| 3 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 4 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 5 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 6 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 7 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 8 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 9 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 10 | By the end of the day , Juliana was brimming over with new-found confidence . |
| 11 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 12 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 13 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |
| 14 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 15 | The full force of the rising tide had reached the channel mouth and a foaming mass of water was pouring in with terrifying speed . |
| 16 | The share account was paying up to 8.75 p.c. net in 1979 , the monthly savings account paid a top rate of 9.5 p.c. net and up to 12.5 p.c. net was paid on term accounts . |
| 17 | As soon as she was heading out of Lower Axe towards the coast , she began to feel better . |
| 18 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 19 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 20 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 21 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 22 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 23 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 24 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 25 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd known what was going on in that house right under my nose … ’ |
| 27 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 28 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 29 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 30 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |