Example sentences of "and was [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 2 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 3 | A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window . |
| 4 | The obvious implication is that the writer had experienced the order a just king could create , and was writing after the establishment of the monarchy . |
| 5 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 6 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 7 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 8 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 9 | Bending double , he ducked beneath the window and was moving towards the door … when a long man-shaped shadow moved across the bar of light thrown out onto the paved pathway . |
| 10 | Germans ? — had manned Campbeltown 's oerlikons and was firing across the entrance . |
| 11 | Although the machine is available and was shipping in the US at the end of 1992 , the latest information available at the time of writing is that it ships in the UK on 1st February 1993 , and the list price is £449 . |
| 12 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 13 | Ricard agreed and was searching for the key on the ring of his belt when we heard the sound of horses and men shouting . |
| 14 | Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention . |
| 15 | Even Bicker seemed to have lost his wary watchfulness and was grinning with the rest . |
| 16 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 17 | She wanted to shriek , to curse him into all eternity — but he had already turned his back and was strolling towards the sitting-room . |
| 18 | He had begun the clearing and draining of the Fairfax land and was helping with the actual physical labour himself . |
| 19 | The mining equipment had powered up and was descending into the depths of the shaft . |
| 20 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 21 | It dawned on him that this was precisely the wrong thing to say , but Hrun had already pushed Twoflower away and was reaching for the Luggage … |
| 22 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 23 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 24 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 25 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 26 | Before he knew what he was doing , Dougal had scrambled into the gazebo and was kneeling beside the body . |
| 27 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 28 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 29 | I 'm writing with regard to a letter from Andy Mitchell from Ashington ( Aug ‘ 92 ) , who was looking for help in the preamp/processor direction , and was looking for the Eddie Van Halen , Brian May and the Nuno Bettencourt sounds for his processor . |
| 30 | She had got off the boat and was looking for the way out . |