Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His companions at base camp were expecting him back by dusk at the latest . |
| 2 | By the time that Sheffield cutlers were selling their goods all over Britain and large quantities of knives , scissors , saws and scythes were being exported to America . |
| 3 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 4 | Although the campaign against apprenticeship brought a renewal of petitioning , by 1838 the Scots abolitionist William Smeal was expressing his disappointment at how ‘ cavalierly ’ petitions which had taken so much effort were received by the Commons . |
| 5 | Despite the American criticism of Rhee , the British ambassador in Washington , Sir Oliver Franks , believed that the Truman administration was identifying itself more closely with South Korea . |
| 6 | What made it more significant was that over 7,000 Sheffield fans were following us . ’ |
| 7 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 8 | While Martin Smyth was trying to persuade the march organizers to relent , Ian Paisley was promising his support . |
| 9 | Over the road , Jessica Haddow was making herself invisible . |
| 10 | A survey of 151 school nurses showed that nearly two — thirds felt cut were undermining their quality of care . |
| 11 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |
| 12 | The woman 's mad , Miss Honey was telling herself . |
| 13 | She was reading aloud , a man holding a boom mike was registering her voice ; she was declaiming from Soul on Ice : |
| 14 | Besides , her own secret affection for Richard Ward was calling her back . |
| 15 | And how come Neil Cochrane was amusing her so easily without even trying ? |
| 16 | The former brigadier Toby Low was continuing his evidence in his action for damages over accusations that he repatriated 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks from Allied-occupied Austria in 1945 , knowing they faced almost certain death . |
| 17 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 18 | It was immediately adjourned by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party when it became clear that the opposition parties were continuing their boycott of the legislature . |
| 19 | In the car Maisie was studying her music . |
| 20 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 21 | At about the same time as The School Curriculum was being prepared by the DES , the now defunct Schools Council was preparing its own document . |
| 22 | A seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee was coming his way and an office in the just-built Longworth Building across from the Capitol awaited him . |
| 23 | The fingerprint expert was unpacking his bag . |
| 24 | Miss Havisham was making me rich ! |
| 25 | That silver Chevrolet was following us . |
| 26 | Grandad arrived in Baldersdale around the turn of the century , to work on the building of the reservoir , and came to lodge at Low Birk Hatt , when Great-Grandfather Tallentire was running it . |
| 27 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 28 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
| 29 | A man with a little tin cart was keeping our beautiful city clean , like it says on the posters , watched by the usual couple of loafers , one of them sitting on a fire hydrant . |
| 30 | Mr Major used his new policy adviser , Sarah Hogg , to ensure that Downing Street was putting its own ideas in to the review . |