Example sentences of "[coord] was [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 2 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 3 | By 1850 the company had seventy employees and was using an early form of mail order to sell seeds in Britain and overseas , as postal and railway services helped to expand its activities . |
| 4 | By 1968 the war was recognised to be ‘ unwinnable ’ , it divided US society and was proving an enormous drain on economic resources . |
| 5 | He had arranged them , with his own boys , in a circle round a plane-tree and was giving an impromptu lecture on the classificatory work of Darwin to both notionally Muslim and notionally Christian pupils . |
| 6 | He was one of the first to see that the tomato was ceasing to be a luxury and was becoming an established part of the British diet , and he developed an important trade in carrying tomatoes from the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | She was too busy watching her godmother , who had reached her father 's side and was having an animated conversation with him , albeit a somewhat one-sided one . |