Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 2 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 3 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Reading between the lines , it was evident that de Gaulle was seeking to encourage those individuals in the political establishment — such as President Coty and the deputy prime minister , Guy Mollet — who were already moving towards a Gaullist solution , but that he was not yet willing to negotiate with the collective leadership of the Republic . |
| 5 | Counsel for three of the trade unionists , Lynda Clark , QC , said Timex was seeking to prevent lawful meetings . |
| 6 | Counsel for three of the trade unionists , Lynda Clark , QC , said Timex was seeking to prevent lawful meetings . |
| 7 | In December , the Department of the Environment was seeking to require local authorities , which had inserted clauses in tender documents obliging contractors to maintain terms and conditions of employment , to re-tender without the offending clause , on the grounds that it concerned a ‘ non-commercial matter ’ within section 17 of the Local Government Act 1988 ( Financial Times , December 12,1992 ) . |
| 8 | Education , moreover , was tending to reduce those differences that still remained ; the proportion of children receiving their education through Russian was steadily increasing , and Russian-speaking Tatars were found in turn to be more favourably disposed towards internationality contact in their home and workplace . |
| 9 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 10 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 11 | I do n't know that I 've got any ambitions that way although you never know , do you now , what they say there 's many a good tune played on an old fiddle I thought you was going to say old women do n't , older women do n't appeal to me , but what about the one who raped me when I was thirteen ? |
| 12 | He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 . |
| 13 | ‘ He was going to kill those lambs . |
| 14 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 15 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 16 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 17 | She was going to pick some flowers for Jenny 's room . |
| 18 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 19 | I was going shopping twenty years later with my parents and my own little girl Sara in her push-chair , when my mother said to my father , ‘ Are you going to nip into the Post Office ? ’ |
| 20 | He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing . |
| 21 | She was going to have her husband was in khaki as a territorial and her and her bridesmaid was going to have khaki frocks to be some of them great velvet frocks . |
| 22 | The idea was that I was going to have these images around the base , and then I never did the Crucifixion . |
| 23 | And she was going to have wonderful costumes , specifically designed for her , featured in each story . |
| 24 | how tight Mike was going to be with you know having to look after Paul and all the rest of it I promised I 'd take him to Snetterton market and he could have , he was going to buy some records . |
| 25 | I was going to make baked beans for tomorrow lunch . ’ |
| 26 | Was this the wolf who was going to make double-edged remarks , even a pass , at her ? |
| 27 | He informed the MCC that he was going to build several houses on the ground , leaving only 150 square yards for cricket . |
| 28 | I was going to send some pictures to Marcus in prison but I do n't suppose they would let him have them . |
| 29 | Ken was as unclear about what he wanted to do as to how he was going to fulfil sexual urges which he inwardly knew would never be satisfied . |
| 30 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |