Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who on earth was thumping at the door like that early in the morning ? |
| 2 | A stocky , energetic young man with a shock of red hair was thumping on a table-top and proclaiming in a strong Welsh accent : ‘ I 'm simply asking , when are we going to get our rights , like we was promised ? |
| 3 | Theda managed an answering smile , but her heart was thumping like a drum . |
| 4 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 5 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 6 | You said your partner was seeing to the tourist board and the airlines here in Palma — ’ |
| 7 | But it was as if , for the first time , he was seeing beyond the image his assumptions had created . |
| 8 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 9 | Wycombe manager Martin O'Neill revealed last night : ‘ At half-time in the original tie , David performed some miraculous running repairs on Simon Stapleton , who was struggling with a back injury . |
| 10 | Besides a US$70,000 million foreign debt , the country was struggling with a foreign-exchange crisis that had reduced reserves to under one month 's worth of imports . |
| 11 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 12 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 13 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 14 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 15 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 16 | She felt as if she was struggling through a nightmare syrup that suffocated and hampered , and yet still this walk was too short — too short ! |
| 17 | It was only when she realised that she had n't used the unarmed combat that was by now second nature to her , but was struggling in a manner that was instinctive , that she stopped . |
| 18 | He put the holdall on the table then moved behind her chair to look over her shoulder at the entry she was underlining with a fingernail . |
| 19 | Bodie received the message about the sneaky departure of Chrissie and the two children as he was jogging round the block , just after six in the morning . |
| 20 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 21 | She was kneeling beside the child , putting on his pyjamas , when Vitor appeared in the doorway . |
| 22 | Freddie Moore had watched the attack by the fighters , and ten minutes later , after a hectic cross-country drive in his little sports car , he was kneeling beside the pilot . |
| 23 | Inside the kitchen , Frobisher was kneeling beside the body , peering through his bifocals at the horrible dent in the skull . |
| 24 | Before he knew what he was doing , Dougal had scrambled into the gazebo and was kneeling beside the body . |
| 25 | Dr Rees , the police surgeon , was kneeling beside the body . |
| 26 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 27 | She was kneeling on a kitchen chair , her long hair trailing in the margarine , when she heard the steps . |
| 28 | She was kneeling on a beach of golden sand . |
| 29 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
| 30 | On this sunny summer afternoon , Little Billy was kneeling on a chair in the living room , gazing out through the window at the wonderful world beyond . |