Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 2 | But er this hundred and twenty pound radio was knocking away for a five quid in the end er I er I heard . |
| 3 | ‘ There he was a-sitting there like a scaly old bull . ’ |
| 4 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 5 | Everything was happening now with a distant , dreamlike certainty . |
| 6 | Once she was driving home from a riotous party in the French countryside in order to allow Bernard to sleep on the back seat . |
| 7 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
| 8 | After several weeks of sleeping bags and ‘ pretty awful food ’ , Ms Stephens , who lost a stone and half during the expedition , was looking forward to a hearty meal and a good night 's sleep in a proper bed . |
| 9 | One of Jonathan 's neighbours in Hornsey , north London , said last night : ‘ He was looking forward to a big Christmas . |
| 10 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 11 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 12 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
| 13 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 14 | All was going well until a passing lad with a sense of fun ( ? ) pulled out the plug . |
| 15 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 16 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |
| 17 | At home a few days later , she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf . |
| 18 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 19 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
| 20 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 21 | He was speaking today at a Tory Reform Group fringe meeting in Bournemouth . |
| 22 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 23 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |
| 24 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 25 | Then she found that she did n't have to say a word for , his expression the harshest she had ever seen it , Ven was wasting no further time , but was letting forth with a snarled , ‘ Just who the hell are you ? ’ |
| 26 | But , as he passed the children , he saw he was closing fast on a grey saloon car , which ‘ appeared from nowhere ’ in the fast lane , he added . |
| 27 | He was staring downwards with a fierce grin , an expression that did n't change as he turned and saw Ace . |
| 28 | Benny was staring intently at a large worm wriggling on the pile of damp earth . |
| 29 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 30 | The Primus was roaring away with a powerful blue flame and already the water in the saucepan was beginning to bubble . |