Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physicist was clutching a plastic beaker from which he drank greedily . |
| 2 | A poison courier was sharing a jar with a waterman . |
| 3 | There are cases in which an interlocutory injunction has been granted , despite the fact that the defendant was raising a defence to the alleged crime . |
| 4 | Keke was having a totally unsatisfactory time at Williams and Lauda the miseries at McLaren . |
| 5 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |
| 6 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 7 | In 1961 the Club was developing a more commercial approach to itself , in no small measure owing to Jack Webb who worked for the Club 's accountant , Spencer Ell . |
| 8 | Her movements brisk and businesslike though her mind was imitating a tumble-drier , she gave his sleeping-bag another quick but thorough shake and spread it out over the mattress . |
| 9 | When Morse opened the ramshackle gate to number 97 , his mind was anticipating a potentially most interesting encounter . |
| 10 | Gaston was occupying a high-backed chair in the place of honour , and she went to stand beside him , watching Marie-Christine , the skirts of her dress looped over her arm , being whirled round the floor by Jacques . |
| 11 | I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard , that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands . |
| 12 | It was also reported that the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation of contract payments to the General Dynamics Corp. and the McDonnell Douglas Corp. , the contractors responsible for building the A-12 . |
| 13 | At this stage the State Department was contemplating a neutral high commissioner , possibly Dutch or Swiss , supported by an advisory council including representatives of the trusteeship powers . |
| 14 | Her tea was getting a vigorous stirring , so that it swirled around the cup . |
| 15 | At the same time , she recognized that the photograph was exerting a considerable pull on her own imagination . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the Bodegraven was having a hard time trying to dear Dutch waters . |
| 17 | Now , at last , the snow was easing a little . |
| 18 | A return to office by Labour after thirteen years of Conservative rule was becoming a distinct possibility . |
| 19 | Lavinia was wearing a tart an skirt and a green blouse and cardigan . |
| 20 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 21 | Labour was opposing a European ideal which its leader believes in passionately . |
| 22 | After the vote last night , in which 26 Tories , including Bill Walker ( Tayside N ) , voted against the Government , Labour was flagging a new amendment which it claims will put the Government on the spot over the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 23 | He said Labour was seeking a mandate for the action needed to pull Britain out of recession . |
| 24 | At a time when the feature industry was undergoing a re-examination and the documentary movement was split between filmmakers who felt that they should reach out to a cinema audience , and those like Grierson himself who preferred to exhibit films outside the theatre ( e.g. town halls , schools , etc. ) , the possibility was open for some sort of rapprochement between the documentary and the fiction film . |
| 25 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 26 | Reporting on its first national investigation into waste disposal in the USA on April 3 , 1989 , the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) concluded that US industry was placing a " startlingly and unacceptably high " volume of toxic substances into the land , water and air . |
| 27 | Elsewhere in the Lakes the tourist industry was having a last determined autumn fling , but not here , not in this quiet and relatively undiscovered cul-de-sac . |
| 28 | She looked across at Dr Neil ; the overhead light was making a golden aureole around his sandy head , and she thought again that even with his dreadful scar he was an extremely attractive man . |
| 29 | We had just such a function there last Saturday , where the consensus was that making a living was getting a bit easier , that the economy was startling to move forward , and that , by the time we get round to the season of the darling buds of May , the prospects for Her Majesty 's Government might well be ’ perfick , just perfick ’ . |
| 30 | Tuppe was wearing a very smart tartan shirt and a pair of Osh Kosh dungarees . |