Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was not enough , the Poles in all three partition areas were enjoying a baby boom . |
| 2 | Whether Lorenz 's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant . |
| 3 | The commoners , who had everything to lose from undertakings such as his , were firing an opening shot . |
| 4 | Christine mentioned that the CCBI were producing a pamphlet listing recommended books for Lent , including the one by Liz . |
| 5 | So when the carriage is set to slip , with the side lever ( nearest the knitting ) on and you want the carriage to knit , the carriage will instead slip and knit according to the card , just as if you were knitting a slip stitch pattern . |
| 6 | ‘ Our research showed that over half our customers were using a Windows operating system , ’ commented , managing director of HTFS , a joint venture between AEA , NEL and the Atomic Energy of Canada . |
| 7 | In 1984,20 per cent of all establishments were using at least one fixed-term contract worker , and a third of these ( seven per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 8 | About 17 per cent were using at least one agency worker and , again , a third of these ( six per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 9 | But in parts of Herefordshire the old ways die hard and at Shortwood they were using a shire horse for cider making until the 1940s . |
| 10 | ‘ You were singing a nursery rhyme — about the moon . ’ |
| 11 | HOSPITAL fund raisers have hit back at claims that they were staging a begging plea in a bid to find more cash . |
| 12 | By the middle of the 19th century vessels of varying description were plying a passenger trade to over fifty calling points throughout the River and Firth of Forth . |
| 13 | Eleven analysts had stated that they were keeping a spreadsheet model of the company . |
| 14 | Do n't do it automatically , as though you were reciting a shopping list . |
| 15 | He spoke with a total lack of melodrama , as though he were reciting a shopping list . |
| 16 | A middle-aged man and woman were escorting a purestrain Stealer through aisles lined with crates in some ill-lit claustrophobic warehouse . |
| 17 | Oliver and Angelina were inspecting a Jubilee memorial put up twelve years ago commemorating ‘ fifty years of ever-broadening commerce , fifty years of ever-brightening science , fifty years of ever-widening empire ! ’ |
| 18 | Only Lori could act as if she were meeting a bosom friend for tea and a chat , when the reality was something light-years removed . |
| 19 | Eight major chemical companies , including ICI and Du Pont , announced on Nov. 24 that they were establishing a research programme into the development of alternatives to CFCs . |
| 20 | We were passing a film poster and he said , that 's a good film . |
| 21 | It is , for example , remarkable that almost half of all medical students are women , when as recently as 1974 medical schools were operating a quota system to keep women out . |
| 22 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 23 | FIVE cricket fans , refused a ticket refund when an England game was rained off , were celebrating a test case victory yesterday . |
| 24 | Just hold my hand and turn as if you were turning a door handle . |
| 25 | Another statistic — 64 per cent of Somerwest 's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit . |
| 26 | Almost as if he were describing a Stieglitz photograph of her , he characterised O'Keeffe as ‘ gaping with deep open eyes and fixed mouth at the rather trivial world of living people ’ and called her art ‘ unqualified nakedness of statement . ’ |
| 27 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 28 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
| 29 | His performance was intended as a celebration of that renaissance , and also of the prospects for world peace : for in Moscow Comrade Gorbachev and President Reagan were holding a summit meeting which promised to bear fruit in disarmament . |
| 30 | They were sharing a hymn book and singing . |