Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stranger was talking with vivacity ; she was eating little and without attention ; her wine-glasses were untouched . |
| 2 | It gave no details of his medical condition but an ANC spokesman said the movement 's president was suffering from exhaustion . |
| 3 | A Corporal was indicating to Lovat where he thought the firing was coming from . |
| 4 | All around her , the flower-market was bustling with life as traders seemingly managed to clinch three deals simultaneously , talking and haggling at double speed . |
| 5 | In other words , we cite the rules governing the conduct of business in this arena of social life and show how the agent was acting in accordance with them . |
| 6 | Nuadu stayed where he was , but his mind was tumbling with horror and revulsion . |
| 7 | Soon , the whole tunnel roof was collapsing on top of the ship . |
| 8 | My future was going into hospital next week . |
| 9 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 10 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 11 | The boat was making for Tower Bridge , round the distant bend to Rain 's right ; the tide was running out towards Limehouse Reach , beyond the long sweep of river to her left . |
| 12 | The gap was closing to collision point in seconds . |
| 13 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 14 | Nonetheless , provincial ‘ conurbations ’ , all in the North , suffered appreciably more than other types of area in both absolute and proportionate terms ; the effect was devastating in view of their inherited history of decline and levels of unemployment . |
| 15 | Pre-Christmas party gossip was buzzing with speculation that the company was for sale . |
| 16 | The ref was full of Christmas spirit and United 's top scorer was dancing with delight . |
| 17 | His mouth was pouring with blood and his face was grey . |
| 18 | Maisie was sitting in front of the television , glaring sullenly at a man in a pink tracksuit . |
| 19 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 20 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 21 | The wind was increasing to gale force , and fast . |
| 22 | Carlie was sitting in front of the television when Harvey arrived . |
| 23 | The barman was standing behind Culley with a tray . |
| 24 | Evidence that Perot 's candidacy was growing in popularity in late October led to hints by both the Bush and Clinton camps that Perot could be included in a future Cabinet . |
| 25 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 26 | But although the imperial bureaucracy was growing in size , it was too small to take over all the duties for which landlords had been responsible . |
| 27 | The hut was sweltering with smoke and steam and everybody scratched as vermin crept and bit under their clothes . |
| 28 | He returned a few moments later with the dish , and the little hedgehog could hardly believe her eyes : the gigantic dish was overflowing with dog food . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , by 1800 a commoner was speaking with regret of the times when the undrained wastes had given him pasture , where ‘ he could turn out his cow and pony , feed his flock of geese and keep his pig ’ . |
| 30 | Childline 's executive director , Valerie Howarth , said she was delighted that fund raising was getting under way in Ulster . |