Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 2 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 5 | The organisers also gave a special award to veteran runner Albert Dolman , who was competing in the tenth consecutive run . |
| 6 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 7 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 8 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 9 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 10 | The priest was dying with a last Gloria on his lips , and Harry , carried away upon a tide of hatred for all things Spanish and all things Catholic , had already sunk the blade into the back of the young hidalgo . |
| 11 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 12 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 13 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 14 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 15 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 16 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 17 | Pte Farr , whose family came from London , was serving in the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment . |
| 18 | He had 10 wickets under his belt , was searching for an 11th , and at 264 for 9 , New Zealand captain Martin Crowe knew if either he or last man Chris Pringle fell , the Test was lost ; but if they could gather four runs , the match would be saved , for even if they were out immediately afterwards there would be no time for England to begin a run-chase of any kind before the scheduled close of play at 5.30 . |
| 19 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 20 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 21 | Archie 's Nephew , a stable-companion of Rushing Wild , was scoring for the first time this season , having acted as a schoolmaster for novice riders in several earlier runs . |
| 22 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 23 | Along with Graham Nearn of Caterham and Chris Smith of Westfield , Marsh — Marcos founder and mainstay of the UK 's cottage industry of component car makers — was exhibiting at the last motor show , where anyone could legitimately call him a ‘ kit car ’ maker . |
| 24 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 25 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 26 | as I was going with the fourth year |
| 27 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 28 | The golf-bag on its wheeled trolley was at an angle of 45 and the open end was pointing towards the 18th green . |
| 29 | The most exciting thing about the day was getting off the 18th green . |
| 30 | So everything was riding on the last day … |