Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After seventy years of atheism , religion was re-emerging in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort . |
| 3 | It was Sunday and Nellie was visiting with the twins . |
| 4 | Nellie was sitting at the bedside . |
| 5 | Nellie was chuckling at the story . |
| 6 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 7 | Spencer was staring with obvious delight at the young girl standing before him . |
| 8 | Tensions between the MFGB and the NMA grew , and by mid-November Spencer was negotiating with the Nottinghamshire owners for a separate settlement ; this was concluded on 20 November . |
| 9 | Suddenly Shiona was trembling with outrage , but her tone was as cool as tempered steel as she told him , ‘ The only ambition I have regarding Kirsty is to be appointed as her legal guardian ! ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly Shiona was trembling with anger . |
| 11 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 12 | Cunningham was leafing through a copy of the Financial Times at his desk amidst a cloud of cigar-smoke , beaming like some genial movie mogul , altogether unaffected , it seemed , by the events of the previous night . |
| 13 | Cunningham was warming to this theme now . |
| 14 | A dishevelled Michael Stein was leaning against a faded sign scribbled on the peeling wall . |
| 15 | The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins . |
| 16 | Madonna openly boasted of her ten year plan , now Kylie was drawing up hers . |
| 17 | A session with Bakha was said to have taken place while Kylie was working on Neighbours . |
| 18 | Not only proud to display her naked breasts — which attracted some criticism from some quarters for their shape and size — Kylie was revelling in the debate about her body . |
| 19 | A contractor was working on a drain outside . |
| 20 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 21 | And the fire brigade was coming along the road , we could hear it coming you know . |
| 22 | Certain stock was missing from the infirmary , including a number of mackintosh sheets . |
| 23 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 24 | ‘ What Bert was saying about my ‘ harem ’ , ’ he said easily as the car purred forwards into the traffic . |
| 25 | All at once , a dignified Jeff was walking towards her and Guido , looking Guido straight in the eye as though he had nothing to fear . |
| 26 | Now the stranger was standing on the quayside , watching several straining seamen carry a large , brass-bound chest down the gangplank . |
| 27 | The stranger was talking with vivacity ; she was eating little and without attention ; her wine-glasses were untouched . |
| 28 | You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back . |
| 29 | A great deal was riding on it : some said the Fox studio was at stake . |
| 30 | A lone jeep was careering up the middle of the 18th fairway , bucking and bouncing in its haste to reach the scene of the ‘ exercise . ’ |