Example sentences of "was also [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 2 | Jean Baptiste , living at home on the rue de Seine , married Louise Marquin , daughter of Elizabeth Carré and the deceased Sieur Jean Marquin , ‘ Intendant de maison et affaires de Seine , who was also living on the rue de Seine . |
| 3 | As Ebenezer was also serving in the army , Florrie moved into the flat above the shop , together with her schoolboy son and Arnold 's young bride , Maudie . |
| 4 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 5 | The conference also suggested that the standard requisitions on title be amended to include a reference to whether a seller 's solicitor was also acting for the lender in the redemption of the mortgage . |
| 6 | It was there that he found not only his life 's vocation , but his future wife who was also teaching at the school . |
| 7 | And , while holding a conversation with her client , she was also listening to the voice of her broker , relaying prices from the floor of the Metal Exchange in Plantation House through the loudspeaker on the wall above her desk . |
| 8 | Capitalist agriculture was also expanding in the cotton areas of Durango and sugar plantations of Sinaloa , which were other areas of peasant revolt . |
| 9 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 10 | They made a rendezvous with Anna Campbell , who was also staying in the south of France , and passed much of the holiday in a mad drunken haze . |
| 11 | Sister Dew , who was also helping at the stall , said gushingly , ‘ Well , Miss Broome , you are a good saleswoman — another bed jacket gone already ! |
| 12 | Minutes later , the yacht Request , which was also competing in the race , fell into difficulties . |
| 13 | SERAFIN : I think I was also thinking about the tape-recorder . |
| 14 | He said the gradual drop in interest rates was also contributing to the improvement in investment conditions . |
| 15 | The estate girls , for all their loyalty , could be as foolish as any other group of young women with dull lives and minimal education , and on this occasion most of Britain was also speculating about the death of her brother 's wife . |
| 16 | That streaked , spluttering light was also crawling on the wall , amidst the shadows . |
| 17 | One of the men from the pub ( the Yasser Arafat look-alike ) was also working for the school . |
| 18 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 19 | It had been carried out by himself , Dr Peter Brophy , and Dr Robert Wilson , who was also going to the premiere . |
| 20 | The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed . |
| 21 | Falmouth 's Arun class Elizabeth Ann was launched at 2140 at the request of the coxswain of The Lizard 's Tyne class David Robinson , which already had L'Espoir , a 40ft converted fishing boat , in two and which was also standing by the yacht Innocence . |
| 22 | Capote was also dancing in the air . |