Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was struggling to grasp the aesthetics of it all . |
| 2 | She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top . |
| 3 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 4 | Scathach hushed the old man , who was struggling to keep the flow of his words . |
| 5 | She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door . |
| 6 | In Tataria , which was demanding to sign the Union Treaty separately from Russia , President Mintimer Shaymiyev resigned from the CPSU central committee , and the Supreme Soviet abrogated the Council of Ministers ' decision to nationalize CPSU property . |
| 7 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 8 | It 's thought the computer he was using to write the book was itself the cause of the fire . |
| 9 | Ironically it seems that the personal computer Mr Anderson was using to write the book was the cause of the fire . |
| 10 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 11 | When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ? |
| 12 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 13 | The mixture of the two styles is magically uncontrived at Waterston , set now in its cosy Edwardian garden laid out with great vision by Morley Horder , the architect who was helping to remodel the interior in 1911 . |
| 14 | The remaining third consisted of some jokes from Zach , a few sentences about animals from George and a patriotic essay from Ginnie about how collecting salvage was helping to win the war . |
| 15 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 16 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 17 | I knew the Maggot was dying to hear the senator 's business , but even the Maggot had enough delicacy to wait until we had safely delivered the senator to Nassau before asking . |
| 18 | The last time anyone saw her was shortly after 7pm , when it was getting dark and she was returning to catch the cable car . ’ |
| 19 | The last time anyone saw her was shortly after 7pm , when it was getting dark and she was returning to catch the cable car . ’ |
| 20 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 21 | Ogilvie had been executed for treason , but his real crime was refusing to acknowledge the king 's dominion in matters spiritual . |
| 22 | The manager was refusing to allow the Committee to use the hall for nothing . |
| 23 | Hong Kong announced on May 3 that it was refusing to allow the ship into the colony . |
| 24 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 25 | Differences stemmed also from reports that Bhutto was seeking to erode the influence of the Army in the formulation of the country 's policy towards Afghanistan and to adopt a more conciliatory approach to the resolution of the Kashmir problem . |
| 26 | In early April it was reported locally that the government , as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme , was seeking to stabilize the economy without " shocks " , and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation ( still running at over 20 per cent a month ) while stimulating production and preserving jobs . |
| 27 | On June 11 Zaki described the first round of talks as " constructive " and denied that Pakistan was seeking to reverse the administration 's decision to suspend aid . |
| 28 | The next messenger was Scandlain himself once again , and he was seeking to avoid the encampment even before Ferteth arrived to conduct him . |
| 29 | In arguing for the provision of a service Mr. Park was seeking to bring the taxpayer 's operations within Lord Bridge 's example in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 , 323A , of rendering a service . |
| 30 | Kingsley Centre also had the Post Office run by Maureen Florence and was looking to extend the shop which , like a planned coffee shop , would also be run by Chainreaction . |