Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 2 | Jeffrey Archer , who was discussing the size of his tax bill with the Features Editor of Woman 's Own , momentarily lost his thread ; who was she ? |
| 3 | England 's one fitness doubt tomorrow concerns Phillip DeFreitas , who was resting a sore elbow yesterday , but otherwise their major problem is whether to play both their spinners . |
| 4 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 5 | After this brief introduction the head , who was chairing the meeting , asked staff for comments and questions . |
| 6 | I admired my daughter-in-law so much the day I saw her stand a full five minutes waiting for her little boy who was watching a worm disappearing through a hole in the earth . |
| 7 | By stumps on the second day Australia were 36 for 1 ( Taylor 18 , Boon 11 ) , and on Day 3 the pair took their stand to 221 , only 15 short of Australia 's best against India , by Sid Barnes and Don Bradman ( who was watching the play from the committee-room ) in 1947–48 . |
| 8 | ‘ If we do n't do something extremely soon , ’ said Caspar , who was watching the giants furtively , ‘ they 'll be heating up the squares any minute . ’ |
| 9 | and I was very moved by the photograph and I ended up writing a poem to this little girl , and indeed one thing I can say , perhaps with some pride , is that Doctor Barnardos know about this poem , and somehow who was writing a history Barnardo children actually asked to use it in her book . |
| 10 | Willie nodded shyly and went after Sammy who was eyeing the flowers in someone 's window box . |
| 11 | He did n't like the look of that rascal who was touching a taper to the base of the gun . |
| 12 | By this time the bell would be ringing insistently , because the Met Waaf at Group who was collecting the observations would have her finger on it , and sometimes she would type out a terse little message or two , such as , ‘ Wake up , Bourn ! ’ or ‘ There 's a war on , you know ! ’ |
| 13 | He replaced Absamat Masaliyev , who was leaving the post apparently because of differences with Kirghizia 's President Askar Akayev . |
| 14 | The corollary to that sad case actually was when after we 'd moved them we got another phone call six months lad er later from this very lady who was leaving the house and moving out . |
| 15 | Port Essington , the most remote , dangerous , and perhaps most promising , hunting ground left on his itinerary , and which Gould himself had intended to explore before his triumphant visit to Namoi , was designated to his capable assistant Gilbert , who was staying an extra year in Australia . |
| 16 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 17 | Sir William , who was expressing a personal view because of internal differences over the reorganisation , said that to split the NCC into three would remove a strategic overview in formulating national policies . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Mantell said that Paul Taylor , 27 , who was nearing the end of a three-and-a-half-year term for theft and assault at the time of the riot in April , 1990 , had taken part in some of the worst violence . |
| 19 | Only one major adjustment was needed , to replace the captain , Tom Parker , who was nearing the end of his playing days . |
| 20 | There were , of course , grounds for taking it ; they could well argue the impossibility of continuing to give their loyalty and service to a monarch who was creating a totally new situation by failing in her fundamental duty of ruling her people . |
| 21 | He had been out working all day on a commission job for a fashionable hairdresser who was creating a branch in Los Angeles . |
| 22 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 23 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 24 | Why not just ask him ? she wondered as she stepped over the outstretched leg of Polly Inferno , aka Amanda Stern from Lanarkshire , who was using the corridor space for some warmup exercises and somehow , at the same time , studying a book . |
| 25 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 26 | Now it was she who was using the past tense . |
| 27 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 28 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 29 | If the cradle had been lowered , it would eventually have turned over , throwing out rigger Andy Bowman , who was controlling the stunt from inside it . |
| 30 | An interesting donation of £10 to the building of the school was from George Hudson the railway king , who was constructing the Hull to Bridlington line at the time . |