Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 2 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 3 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 4 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 5 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 6 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 7 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 9 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 10 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 11 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 12 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 13 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 14 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 15 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 16 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 18 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 19 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 20 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 21 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 22 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 23 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 24 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 25 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 26 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 27 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 28 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 29 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 30 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |