Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
2 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
3 | It is thought to be unlikely that the action will be settled out of court , and prospects of a rapprochement between the OSF and Sun — that were just beginning to be talked about ( UX No 379 , 380 ) — now appear remote . |
4 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |
5 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
6 | A narrow drive ran through a garden that was full of late summer flowers that were still blooming in the warmth of the autumn sun , and large , spreading trees that threw irregular patches of shade . |
7 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
8 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
9 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
10 | The three Frenchmen have just settled into the trench as I contemplated the hordes of mosquitoes that were now descending on the area . |
11 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
12 | Nearby was the base camp for the New Zealand Division that was away fighting in the front line . |
13 | George had no idea about the rave that was just beginning in Woodham Woods . |
14 | But in fact George Brown had a considerable edge over Labour 's later candidate , David Owen , who offended the mandarins of King Charles Street with a quiet deliberation that was wholly lacking in George even in his most sober moments . |
15 | They collapsed on the ground , gasping , black in the face , their hair covered with charred paper that was slowly settling like a shower of tiny , black , bird 's wings . |
16 | The cold was like weasels biting and the strong strange musky smell of the fo'c'sle played on her stomach that was already protesting over the gobbled bread . |
17 | Maggie peered through the frost that was already forming on the canopy . |
18 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
19 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
20 | Smiling and apparently oblivious of her alarm that was rapidly turning into panic , Guido continued to guide her towards the sailboat . |
21 | Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ? |
22 | That would be a decision of the officer in charge of the actual operation erm that was actually going into the flat but it was normal practice that radios would be switched off . |
23 | ‘ Here , there is an atmosphere of optimism that was totally lacking in London ’ . |
24 | There was an atmosphere that was almost crackling in this room and she was sure that Jules would notice , but apparently he did not . |
25 | The patient was recommended to give up his present job and to seek an occuption that was less demanding on his legs and arms . |
26 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
27 | This local firm built and repaired motor cars and motor bicycles ; and it was not long before this stocky , young man with an engaging smile and tousled , fair , ginger hair that was forever falling into his eyes was completely at home in the workshops . |
28 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
29 | However , there are numerous communities where the Lubavitch rabbi has revived a community that was literally dying on its feet . ’ |
30 | De Gaulle opted for Pleven 's solution , on the grounds that the medicine that Mendès-France prescribed was too strong for a nation that was still recovering from its wounds . |