Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was only just gathering breath to protest when his lips eventually captured hers , their sweetness instantly filling her with a warm , deep pleasure . |
| 2 | Charles wondered whether this was true or whether Paul Lexington was once again using delaying tactics for devious reasons of his own . |
| 3 | She was probably just seeking attention . ’ |
| 4 | But he did protest vigorously to Hurley when he discovered that a full-time British staff cameraman for a major news service was also secretly shooting stuff for the DEA , using his employer 's equipment . |
| 5 | Any lender who displayed the Association 's symbol indicating he was a member was also publicly acknowledging adherence to the Code . |
| 6 | He was really just buying time before having to deal with Patrizia Valesio . |
| 7 | The militarism which had begun to take root in Europe during the eighteenth century was now steadily gaining strength . |
| 8 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
| 9 | Thus , when the first flicker of daylight broke on the horizon at about 02.30 on 1 June , Jellicoe found the sea empty : Scheer had eluded him and was even then reaching sanctuary . |
| 10 | Was she at peace , or was there a part of her that was even now wandering Minginish ? |
| 11 | Arthur Rank was no longer applying pressure on him to make bigger , more ambitious pictures , and Balcon was very much his own man . |
| 12 | However , regardless of views about the benefits of legislation ( and this remains , as we shall see , a matter of some controversy ) , the evidence in the 1980s was that simply leaving action to employers had left older workers in an exposed and vulnerable situation . |
| 13 | It was too like throwing rubbish away . |
| 14 | Thus in Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food milk producers from the south east asked the minister to appoint a committee of investigation , alleging that the price they were paid by the Milk Marketing Board was too low having regard to transport costs . |
| 15 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |