Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 2 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 3 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 4 | Simmons was struggling into a black gown . |
| 5 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 6 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |
| 7 | Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause , of course , but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp . |
| 8 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 9 | The police Sergeant was kneeling beside the wounded man , pressing a pad against his side to stop the flow of blood . |
| 10 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 11 | He heard Paddy 's whisper from where he was kneeling in the front row and it had quite a chilling effect . |
| 12 | The Sergeant was kneeling by the sprawled body of the fourth man present . |
| 13 | She took Martha 's hand and together they went to the terrace where her mother was resting on a new cushioned lounger . |
| 14 | Now she was rattling along the empty streets , the horse 's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh ? ’ she questioned carefully , while her brain was rattling off the clamouring question — was he saying that he would give her a lift ? |
| 16 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 17 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 18 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 19 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 20 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 21 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 22 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 23 | Thus the emotively articulated skies and sleek luminosity with which Titian was experimenting in the early 1520s are echoed and developed in Palma and Lotto and Dosso , and the fluid and broken brushwork of the last three decades — itself , in part , a response to Schiavone — is transmuted in Tintoretto and Bassano . |
| 24 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 25 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 26 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 27 | Her head , which was rotating at a different speed and a contrary motion to her brushing arm , reminded him of a duck in a shooting gallery . |
| 28 | Caspar was sniffing at the dead magpie . |
| 29 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 30 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |