Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Theda managed an answering smile , but her heart was thumping like a drum . |
| 3 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was kneeling on a kitchen chair , her long hair trailing in the margarine , when she heard the steps . |
| 12 | She was kneeling on a beach of golden sand . |
| 13 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 16 | The pebble was resting in a hollow . |
| 17 | The pebble , like the earlier one they had come across , was resting in a hollow . |
| 18 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 19 | A very large number of scats was collected from an artificial salt lick , which the genet was using as a latrine . |
| 20 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 21 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 22 | ON FRIDAY , November 22 , 1963 , I was tucking into a steak in the Bellevue Arms at Whitewell outside Belfast when the news that shocked the world came on the radio . |
| 23 | Could she believe how well her son was faring against a man who had twice stepped into the ring with Mike Tyson ? |
| 24 | She was experimenting with a risotto when Ron Paget appeared at the door . |
| 25 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 26 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 27 | But the morning faded into the light of common day and the sun was contending with a missle ( mist/drizzle ) . |
| 28 | Corporal Alan Furniss , commander of the Warrior , said they were driving through an area nicknamed Sniper 's Alley when he received a message there was firing from a cinema ahead . |
| 29 | The fur coat was hanging under a cotton cover . |
| 30 | If he was hanging in a slaughterhouse , then might they not choose to use the implements of the slaughterer on him ? |