Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before , she had understood his choice in a theoretical fashion ; now she was seeing what that choice meant , and how hard he tried for his poor patients , and for such little return other than the simple and offered faith of the poor , suffering girl on the bed . |
| 2 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 3 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |
| 4 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 5 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 6 | Soon afterwards he was building his own telescopes , at which , like most things he turns his hand to , he excels . |
| 7 | Her beautiful soft face , illuminated by the intermittent glow of the fog light , was reflecting its own light of love . |
| 8 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 9 | Inside McAllister , who was enjoying her own performance as a clumsy hoyden , a wicked devil was laughing itself stupid , until she felt strong hands under her armpits and Dr Neil hoisted her clear of her victim . |
| 10 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 11 | He told me that Lambeth Palace was pursuing its own contacts in an attempt to locate Terry Waite . |
| 12 | Further evidence that Castro was pursuing his own course rather than responding to US actions is given by the testimony of US Ambassador Philip Bonsal , who found his efforts to meet with Castro and to pursue negotiations thwarted . |
| 13 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 15 | No sulks from United they came back with a bounce … and this should have been 2-1 … the run and shot was down to Chris Pike but the referee gave off-side against Pickard who was minding his own business … bad decision |
| 16 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 17 | Magnus Fehn , 13 , was representing his own creation , the New Democracy Party , which plans to fleece the rich and tax the Queen . |
| 18 | When in Mark 's gospel the father of the demented boy cried out , ‘ I believe ; help my unbelief ! ’ , he was condemning his own doubt as unbelief . |
| 19 | Yesterday the Royal Mail was keeping its own counsel about this hot literary topic . |
| 20 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
| 21 | Her hand was caressing her own breast now , probing with such delicacy , feeling the hard resistance , the anger of her lover . |
| 22 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 23 | Each branch was developing its own way of coping with the environment , and progress in one direction could not be evaluated by comparison with any other . |
| 24 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 26 | Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath , polishing old ones , composing new ones . |
| 27 | He was acting in plays , he was writing his own plays , he was reading books , he was meeting other writers , making friends … |
| 28 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 29 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 30 | It was imagining its own absence from the scene , and disbelieving innocence . |