Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came into the hangar where Preston was gluing bits of plane together and told him he was taking one of the new chaps up for a spin . |
| 2 | The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF . |
| 3 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 4 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 5 | Mr O'Malley brought the hay , and Sam was filling buckets of water . |
| 6 | Several guerrillas , wreathed in cartridge bandoliers , were reading comics near an empty café where an old man was picking crumbs of bread off a table . |
| 7 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 8 | Lee was pulling bits of twig through the camouflage net and going to the entrance all the time to look at Caspar . |
| 9 | The man called at the house in Amesbury , Wilts , and said he was investigating allegations of sex abuse . |
| 10 | Kiku was wearing cloth of gold . |
| 11 | Last season he was getting loads of stick and his contract came up for renewal — when we were in a potential relegation situation . |
| 12 | If the Council was getting loads of growth in its budget it might not need to increase its charges . |
| 13 | That stroking thumb was sending shafts of heat straight up her arm with every heartbeat . |
| 14 | He also had an alternative explanation : the major factor responsible was rising standards of living , of which the most significant feature was improved diet ( McKeown 1976 ) . |
| 15 | He handles it with the familiarity of a mother with her baby , yet he has a look in his eyes as if he was removing specks of vomit . |
| 16 | And in doing so she had nearly lost her balance , and he was heaping coals of fire on her head by holding her up . |
| 17 | The ubiquitous Mosquito ( in its PR ) role ) had appeared early in the year and was recording details of damage inflicted by the night raids . |
| 18 | Many of us at that time welcomed the fact that the government was taking stock of public opinion , and was t making the effort to review the , the , the N H S. |
| 19 | A British Rail spokeswoman could not say whether the lorry driver who was taking rolls of newspaper to Scarborough would face charges . |
| 20 | After just two years at Max Factor , which he joined in 1986 and where he was marketing director of colouring and skincare products , he was appointed marketing director . |
| 21 | George was forging bills of exchange to pay off his wholesalers . |
| 22 | She saw the tension and fear that was putting lines of stress around the other woman 's eyes and mouth and squeezing her hands into tight , pale fists . |
| 23 | She was putting spoonfuls of sponge mixture from a big bowl into tiny paper cases . |
| 24 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
| 25 | By the second half of the 1950s , thanks to foreign loans , the economy was showing signs of recovery , and Spain had been admitted as a member of the United Nations , in December 1955 . |
| 26 | Lord Chilver , the chairman of the Reading-based group , said yesterday that European markets were unlikely to make much progress in 1993 , but the US was showing signs of recovery . |
| 27 | So now , although her guests had really had enough tea and would rather have been somewhere else , everyone was showing signs of impatience for another cup . |
| 28 | ‘ Our oil-fired central heating system was showing signs of age , so the National Trust 's adviser on Conservation Heating looked for a new system which would be efficient , cost effective and environmentally sound . |
| 29 | Though Coleridge was lonely , and made ill by the dampness of his rooms , he quickly became a regular attender at chapel , read mathematics for three hours a day , and in ‘ Leisure hours ’ was making translations of Anacreon . |
| 30 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |