Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he began to profess they were ‘ really just good friends ’ , Kylie was strangely sticking to her guns . |
| 2 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was an irritant , no more — especially as Mary of Guise was now moving towards the culmination of her policy , the French marriage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 8 | Maxie was still staring at a half cup of coffee . |
| 9 | The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty was today fighting for his political survival in the Court area where counting was still under way . |
| 10 | Travelling with Dennis was hardly going to be a delight , but it would be worth it . |
| 11 | ‘ The Sun Ai n't Gon na Shine Anymore ’ by The Walker Brothers was allegedly playing on the jukebox . |
| 12 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 13 | The Last Movie was finally going into production . |
| 14 | Yesterday , serene as ever , Eric Clapton was there lunching with his photographer pal Terry O'Neill . |
| 15 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 16 | Simultaneously the far more important question of relations with the American colonies , and of the moral justification of the demands which the mother-country was now making on them , roused intense feeling and stimulated widespread political discussion , much of it at a relatively high intellectual level . |
| 17 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 18 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 19 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 20 | As she walked , her mind was still puzzling over the mystery of Moloch 's peculiar ecology . |
| 21 | Like myself , his mind was still wrestling with Mr Billing 's problem and he hardly winced as Tristan placed a steaming plateful of sausage and mash before him . |
| 22 | Henry 's mind was still working on the possibility of marrying Alice of France to another of his sons . |
| 23 | The survival I had in mind was more huddling with a broken leg under a rock in the snow , trying hard not to die of exposure until some pals bring the Mountain Rescue team . |
| 24 | ‘ Abd al-Karim was still recovering from serious gunshot wounds sustained during the Iraqi occupation . |
| 25 | The racecourse was naturally buzzing with accounts of the row at Tremayne 's dinner , most of the stories inflamed and inaccurate because of the embroidery by the press . |
| 26 | Indeed , paradoxical as it may seem , revisionist analysis suggests that the leverage of the liberal parties was actually declining in the years following 1906 . |
| 27 | The imp was either fleeing from female reproaches or about to fall into that trap . |
| 28 | By 1850 , Abel was still assisting at the college , whereas Mansfield was preparing his naphtha fractions elsewhere and was eagerly looking for socially useful outlets for his products . |
| 29 | No department was actively pressing for a treaty . |
| 30 | Jed looked across at Creed and saw that Creed was already staring at him . |