Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so lacking in compassion , in basic humanity . |
| 2 | Bozer was apparently acting in protest at not having been fully consulted by President Turgut Özal on Turkey 's stance in the current Gulf crisis . |
| 3 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 4 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 6 | The blow struck only partly home , because Satan was already twisting in mid-air , trying for another bite as he dropped away . |
| 7 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 8 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |
| 9 | Beida was just falling in line by removing the large statue , it was argued . |
| 10 | He was just staring in disbelief . |
| 11 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
| 12 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 13 | Her father , a farmer from the Hartbeespoort Dam area , north west of Johannesburg , was yesterday appearing in court on possible murder charges . |
| 14 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 15 | A 12-YEAR-OLD boy , who survived in a fume-filled car in which his mother and eight-year-old sister died , was still recovering in hospital yesterday . |
| 16 | Jimmy was still looking in horror at the wall where Frye had disappeared . |
| 17 | Dinah was still weeping in bewilderment . |
| 18 | He was still cursing in French and English . |
| 19 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 20 | Israeli politicians and officials claimed that the PLF attack proved that the PLO was still engaging in terrorist activities despite Arafat 's December 1987 statement renouncing all forms of terrorism [ see p. 36438 ] . |
| 21 | Even if such remarks are not to be taken literally , Craigbarnet was clearly living in poverty and was burdened with a ‘ numerous family ’ . |
| 22 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 23 | I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note . |
| 24 | Cowley picked up a photograph of a sombre looking man of about forty , his face registering all the discomfort he was probably feeling in wedding suit and stiff shirt . |
| 25 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 26 | There is a courtesy in the divine speech , an appeal for Abraham 's co-operation , that was distinctly lacking in chapter 21 and Sarah 's abrupt ‘ Cast out this slave woman with her son . ’ |
| 27 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 28 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |
| 29 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 30 | It was late , much later than she had imagined , and the storm was now beginning in earnest . |