Example sentences of "[was/were] already [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sendei and Rodo were already scrambling over the side of the ‘ speeder . |
| 2 | Catkins were already fluttering on the nut hedge behind Albert 's house and the sky was a pale translucent blue , as tender as a thrush 's egg-shell . |
| 3 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 4 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 5 | The German brigade officers were already spurring down the road towards Sharpe . |
| 6 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 7 | She tried to keep her attention on the lines , but they were already swimming off the page . |
| 8 | The train crew were already collecting in the locker room when I made my way there and introduced myself as Tommy , the actor . |
| 9 | By then , though , the television cameras were in place for the wedding , the cake had been baked , the crowds were already gathering on the pavement and the sense of happy anticipation was almost palpable . |
| 10 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 11 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 12 | The shape was roughly indented in the mud , but little runnels of water were already seeping into the indentation , for the tide had turned . |
| 13 | On that hole Stein and Otaki were already playing into the arena of grandstands . |
| 14 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 15 | The Marmite and plum jam sandwiches were already curling on the trestle table under the walnut tree . |
| 16 | His mother and the governor of Cochin-China were already waiting by the entrance with the Resident Superior of Annam and his official suite of guests . |
| 17 | Her cheeks were already burning from the heat . |
| 18 | Congressional threats to resist the dissolution of the Congress , however , were not expected to materialize and the major parties were already preparing for the election campaign . |
| 19 | Privily he would have liked to enjoy the fun but his heart was already labouring against the cold . |
| 20 | He was already thinking of the creation of a Russian army , but had no idea how to go about it . |
| 21 | She was already moving towards the door . |
| 22 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 23 | Maggie peered through the frost that was already forming on the canopy . |
| 24 | Luke shows how the close relationship between God and Jesus was already forming in the twelve-year-old . |
| 25 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 26 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 27 | The movement aggravated the sensations she was already experiencing at the contact with Travis 's warm body . |
| 28 | Her hand was already reaching for the telephone when a large shape loomed in what now became recognisable as a doorway . |
| 29 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
| 30 | Worse still , one of them had lost its lid and a sluggish , syrupy lake was already spreading across the floor . |