Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simmons was struggling into a black gown . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |
| 4 | She took Martha 's hand and together they went to the terrace where her mother was resting on a new cushioned lounger . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | SHE WAS HANGING in a thick grey fog , just floating . |
| 11 | The foam lining was hanging from a split seam |
| 12 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 13 | My wife was competing in a one-day event and I drove around the M25 to pick her up ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 15 | It appeared to be an old two-dimensional film presentation ; an old fashioned oil-driven military vehicle was speeding across a verdant green field . |
| 16 | He was half-heartedly involved in a discussion on Mary Deare , who at this moment was speeding in a hired car towards Manchester to spend Christmas Day at the Midland Hotel with an unnamed friend appearing in The Tinder Box . |
| 17 | She was building on a genuine ritual of immemorial antiquity , that of Beating the Bounds . |
| 18 | Aunt Margaret was peeling potatoes into a plastic bowl of water on her knees and Victoria was helping with a small but dangerous-looking knife and they were surrounded with puddles . |
| 19 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 20 | The European struggle was drawing to a close but in the Pacific and Far East the savage struggle continued . |
| 21 | The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends . |
| 22 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 23 | She could see that the game was drawing to a close — nearly all the pieces on the board had disappeared — and although she had no idea who was winning she thought that the gladiators needed sustenance . |
| 24 | Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer . |
| 25 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 26 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 27 | Farnham were without several of their leading players , including their captain G. Gooding , who was recovering from a broken leg . |
| 28 | A woman with hair the colour of the purplest of peacock feathers was singing on a yard-high rostrum . |
| 29 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 30 | The baby was weeping in a determined , muscular , long-haul rhythm , probably from earache . |