Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was merely pointing out the underlying logic of this course . |
| 2 | From the very first tiny beginnings , the steady development of life continued , through countless aeons of time , controlled by no other influence than the ruthless laws of the survival of the fittest , and this was the process which was inexorably bringing about the development of the being which was to become man . |
| 3 | ABBERLEY : I was only trying out the idea . |
| 4 | He started to sit up , seeking her face , but she was already moving down the bed , and moments later he felt her lips on his stomach , and then upon the head of his cock , which she took into her mouth by degrees , her tongue playing on it as she went , until he thought he would lose control . |
| 5 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
| 6 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 7 | She was already running down the beach , calling : ‘ Come on , Christina ’ , her voice all but drowned by the crashing waves . |
| 8 | I was just dishing up the ravioli and he had n't even had time to take his helmet off when Nutty stormed in , drunk as a fiddler . |
| 9 | She was just pushing down the lid and trying to close the catches with fumbling fingers when the door swung open . |
| 10 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 11 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 12 | Ashley Booth , the hotel 's general manager , said : ‘ He was just stoking up the fire when it blew back on him and burned one of his hands . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah she was just coming out the car by the er you know in the car park by Decor Lake |
| 14 | I do n't know where he is , I 'll smash his head in when we get home , taking care to use the rolling-pin , then I can tell the judge I was just rolling out the sausage plait when he took me unawares . |
| 15 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |
| 16 | But Mr Malik was always bringing up the subject . |
| 17 | ‘ It was totally laying out the future of Sebadoh , ’ Lou confirms . |
| 18 | I was still wearing out the regulation Docs and the thick black jeans . |
| 19 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 20 | We got back home and everything was still hanging on the walls , but there was more missing from the store . |
| 21 | The story is that the brave telegraphist continued to tap out messages and calls for help as the roaring fire closed in around his log cabin No 30 beside the railroad track , and he was still tapping out the Morse code for ‘ end of message — 30 — end of message — 30 … ’ as the burning log cabin collapsed around him . |
| 22 | In 1958 , Eliot was still pointing out the horror of a civilization whose materialism is ‘ simply boredom ’ . |
| 23 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 24 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |
| 25 | In the twenties , Mr. Cripps , described by A.G. Street as the ‘ prince of grocers ’ , was still carrying on the old established business . |
| 26 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 27 | One such scheme involved the purchase of the Daily Express by Max Aitken with party funds , but the party was also propping up the Globe , the Standard , and a wide range of provincial dailies . |
| 28 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 29 | Tabitha , who had all the beauty and arrogance of her father , was now gouging out the centre of Sukey 's home-made fruitcake with both hands . |
| 30 | Mrs Maybury was now holding out the baby to her , and it was stroking her face . |