Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on the beach , the Big Wheel was still going round , its elegant shape picked out against the blackness of sea and sky by coloured lights , fixed at intervals , along its slender struts . |
| 2 | He looked over his shoulder , to where the youthful shepherd was fretfully hustling his flock from the forum into the skeleton entrance of the baths . |
| 3 | But the shepherd was still trying to scent where the danger lay . |
| 4 | Similarly , in Engineers ' and Managers ' Association v. ACAS ( 1980 ) the House of Lords by a majority held that ACAS had not acted unreasonably in postponing its statutory enquiries for the time being because another union was also seeking recognition and the plaintiff Association was also suing the Trades Union Congress . |
| 5 | Mr Empson said the association was also campaigning to reduce the burden of VAT on its 1,400 members , 300 of them in Scotland . |
| 6 | Malpass was still clutching his leg , using his hands as a tourniquet . |
| 7 | Mr Stein was never going to win ; but his constant carping during the summer about the shortcomings of City Hall might have weakened Mr Dinkins ahead of the autumn fight . |
| 8 | As he began to profess they were ‘ really just good friends ’ , Kylie was strangely sticking to her guns . |
| 9 | Yet as her Five Star lifestyle moved further and further away from the modest suburban existence of Surrey Hills , Melbourne , Kylie was also learning another lesson . |
| 10 | But it was the gruelling work schedule Kylie was now working which placed the greatest strain according to friends . |
| 11 | But a year after that home-made PWL mini movie , featuring her hits , ‘ The Locomotion ’ , ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ , ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ , and ‘ Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi ’ , for her devotees to play in their homes , Kylie was really considering a major career move if everything went wrong . |
| 12 | The demanding schedule of a soap meant that Kylie was often working 12 hours a day and spending what little time she had left in the evening reading her script . |
| 13 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 14 | Daffodil was playfully patting Filmer 's hand . |
| 15 | This … this man , this total stranger was actually daring to sit in judgement ! |
| 16 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 17 | Amos 's great experiment was still going on . |
| 18 | The occasional jeep was still passing by with its dead or wounded aboard , raising a cloud of dust as it turned out of the village and sped down the slight hill toward the Orne bridges . |
| 19 | Half way across the field to the ditch where a jeep was now straining at a rope attached to the emerging car , the Substitute lit on a possible solution . |
| 20 | His tone was casual and conversational , even faintly teasing , but something in his eyes was coldly cutting , analysing , weighing and measuring . |
| 21 | And I had a feeling that a certain exter with spiky reptilian skin and several eyes was also appearing too often in my wake . |
| 22 | The expression reflected in Burun 's eyes was candidly disbelieving . |
| 23 | It was an irritant , no more — especially as Mary of Guise was now moving towards the culmination of her policy , the French marriage . |
| 24 | At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals . |
| 25 | The electorate was steadily expanding during the course of the Stuart century , so that by Anne 's reign perhaps as many as one in four adult males had the right to vote , whilst the passage of the Triennial Act in 1694 meant that those who were enfranchised had the opportunity to make their voice known in frequently contested elections . |
| 26 | It was a very small company — only 23 employees — and my brother Neil was already working there . |
| 27 | She was now seated on the ground , propped up against the wall of one of the grimy tenements they had been passing ; someone had brought water , and Dr Neil was gently wiping her face with his damp handkerchief . |
| 28 | I wish Marie was still cutting my hair . |
| 29 | Demographic decentralization may well have preceded the movement of jobs out of the cities but , by the mid-1970s , a self-sustaining centrifugal force was clearly draining the cities of both people and jobs . |
| 30 | He also announced that the British Royal Air Force was currently training a number of Indonesian Air Force personnel . |