Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 2 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 5 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 6 | In this case , though , is n't it more likely that Joanna was looking for the same 15 minutes of fame achieved by Australian nightclub singer Fairlie Arrow a year ago ? |
| 7 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 8 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 9 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 10 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 11 | Then I tipped the leg and the can over until the leg was lying at the same angle on the grass as it had been , behind Blyth . |
| 12 | McCoist did snatch at a mistimed clearance from Buttigieg but by then the appeal of a substitution was growing at the same rate as the crowd 's dismay . |
| 13 | The splendour of the room never failed to unsettle him , and the fact that everyone else was going through the same series of salutations did nothing to make him feel more comfortable . |
| 14 | At this school exchange , however , my mother met another woman , who had a daughter there , who , miraculously , was going into the same class as me ! |
| 15 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |
| 16 | It may well be that the canny consumer , after benefiting from retailers ' losing their nerve and going into early reductions in 1991 , was waiting for the same to happen again . |
| 17 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 18 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 19 | Soon the whole valley was resounding with the same thud , thud , whack , from every rooftop in the village . |
| 20 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 21 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 22 | ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle . |
| 23 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
| 24 | According to the Economist , the record also showed that Robert Gray , a senior campaign aide , was staying in the same hotel at that time . |
| 25 | That Antony Royd , I remember , Mrs Royd was expecting at the same time as Mrs Bean had Kevin , and he was premature . |
| 26 | The Junior School was expanding at the same time , with two forms ( instead of one ) at each of 7+ and 8+ , with girls admitted here too for the first time . |
| 27 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |
| 28 | He went up to London that day , and in fact was travelling on the same train as Stratton when the two of them arrived back in Oxford . |
| 29 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 30 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |