Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward and Arthur Hardy were spending a short farm holiday at Horsmonden , a 2½ hour train journey away from Margate . |
| 2 | Gurder and Angalo were having a blazing row when Masklin got back . |
| 3 | By 1500 BC , the metal workers of Crete were producing a large range of cooking and storage utensils , including some large cauldrons made by riveting together several bronze sheets : some fine examples were found at Tylissos . |
| 4 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 5 | Paisley was developing a distinctive political position which stressed the religious element in the conflict between nationalist and loyalist . |
| 6 | Manville was playing a wild hunch . |
| 7 | They were like a map of Europe , and that was where James Halden was enjoying a luxurious , carefree holiday with his wife . |
| 8 | Richard was having a lean time . |
| 9 | In my innocence and with musical aspirations , I thought it would be lovely to be married to a professional pianist ; after all , my good friend Fraser Muirhead was paying a great deal of attention to Margaret Geddes , another of the city 's first class piano teachers . |
| 10 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 11 | The United States was receiving a good return on its investment . |
| 12 | According to witnesses , Gyalpo was holding a Tibetan nationalist flag and marching in front of the demonstration as it progressed towards the Jokhang temple in central Lhasa . |
| 13 | Clothes were strewn on the sofa and chairs and Faustina was dragging a silver lame belt along the carpet . |
| 14 | Toby was persuading a buxom young waitress to bring him a bottle of champagne from the supper room . |
| 15 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 16 | Georgina was wearing a black Azzedine Alaïa and a choker of huge fake pearls . |
| 17 | Mrs Edwina Currie was exercising a basic charm . |
| 18 | Increasingly , the Ashleys were hiring a new breed of staff ; qualified and experienced . |
| 19 | ‘ It means that Marius was retaining a beneficial interest in the gift . ’ |
| 20 | But Hadrill was carrying a huge score and looked as if he took opera seriously . |
| 21 | When it was learned that Stratford was convening a provincial council to oppose or denounce this annulment , he and other bishops received writs of prohibition forbidding them to do so . |
| 22 | When we met , Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris . |
| 23 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 24 | At the time of writing this poem ( 11-14 March 1802 ) Wordsworth was preparing a new edition of Lyrical Ballads and revising his famous Preface . |
| 25 | Americans , for example , believed that Stalin was following a definite plan for the expansion of communism throughout the world — when in reality his aim may have been the much more defensive one of building barriers round the Russian homeland . |
| 26 | There were also reports that North Korea was developing a new missile with sufficient range to reach Japan , and currently had the capacity to produce 4,500 tonnes of chemical weapons per year . |
| 27 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Devon was finding a warm welcome in the American West ; there cattlemen associated red coats with good , profitable beef and the Devon bulls proved invaluable on ranches where endurance and the ability to travel in search of water and grazing were essential . |
| 28 | Fergus was writing a deconstructive account of Balzac 's Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu . |
| 29 | Mr. Blacker reported that the Dial-a-Ride was proving a successful venture and they would appreciate feedback from residents . |
| 30 | What we do know is that in the autumn of 1869 Nietzsche was contemplating a large book , but one of a different kind . |