Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 2 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 3 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 4 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 5 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 6 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 7 | The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street , looking around him with an expression of keen interest . |
| 8 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 9 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 10 | Mrs Chalk was clattering round in the kitchen , and a savoury aroma was wafting from that region . |
| 11 | Maybe she was lying out in the desert right now with her prettiness all ruined by bloody holes . |
| 12 | Gurder moved closer and glanced over his shoulder at Angalo , who was lying back in the control seat with a look of dreamy contentment on his face . |
| 13 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 14 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 15 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 16 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 17 | What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other . |
| 18 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 19 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 20 | Yet what was going on in the exchequer and treasury was only symptomatic of changes throughout government , from chancery to wardrobe and chamber , from the great seal to the privy seal . |
| 21 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 22 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 23 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 24 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 25 | It may help us to understand some of the subsequent developments better if first we have an impression of what was going on in the University of Utah chemistry department in 1988 , up to and around the time of the interaction with Jones . |
| 26 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 27 | They did n't seem to be very bothered about issues other than what was going on in the village itself . |
| 28 | Whatever was going on in the village at the time when say the threshing machine was going round . |
| 29 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 30 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |