Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 2 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 3 | The Woman was gazing out of the window , picking at the hem of the tablecloth . |
| 4 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 5 | Marc was gazing out of the window , but he could n't help overhearing her side of the conversation . |
| 6 | the gigantic military effort was sucking out of the economy , not only surplus products , but the very means of replacing means of production and means of consumption . |
| 7 | For a moment , as the old man was walking out of the door , Conway remembered the face in the book on the plane . |
| 8 | He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head . |
| 9 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 10 | Then they were formal again , and the company was trooping out of the courtyard and into the cold breeze that billowed down from the distant mountains , their faces set towards the east . |
| 11 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 12 | and there was one baby who was climbing out of the cot . |
| 13 | Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’ |
| 14 | To a large extent the Unity Campaign was passing out of the control of the Socialist League into that of the Left Book Club and the weekly Tribune , founded by Cripps in January 1937 . |
| 15 | Kaidu was venturing out of the doorway into the yard now . |
| 16 | The crowd was surging out of the hall , we were carried along with it and I was worried about the baby in all this pushing and shoving , but did n't like to mention it in case William should feel he had to take care of me . |
| 17 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 18 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 19 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 20 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 21 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 22 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 23 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |
| 24 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 25 | One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel & Caterer , the other was looking out of the window . |
| 26 | Her father was looking out of the window , but he turned as she came in . |
| 27 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 28 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 29 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 30 | Earlier this month , Habitat announced it was pulling out of the Buttermarket because of poor trading history and the secondary location of the store . |