Example sentences of "was [v-ing] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 2 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 3 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 4 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 5 | Pte Farr , whose family came from London , was serving in the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment . |
| 6 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 7 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 8 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 9 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 10 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 11 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 12 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 13 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |