Example sentences of "and was [v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment the camera tracked to the left and zoomed in to reveal that Nicola had a tube of paper up her left nostril and was pretending to sniff cocaine from the table top . |
| 2 | The waiter had retreated now , leaving them alone , and Vass had seated himself once more opposite her and was proceeding to take charge of the pouring of the coffee . |
| 3 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 4 | Nutty had manoeuvred through the rather narrow gate and was trying to keep Midnight from eating a lavender bush by the front door , and his feet out of a rosebed . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Plehve 's undefeated Fifth Army had turned about and was threatening to engulf Dankl 's now unprotected right flank . |
| 6 | As it passed , he realized that it had slowed down , turned around and was starting to give chase . |
| 7 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |