Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 2 | I was nursing at Tewkesbury General then — ’ Her eyes grew misty , and Juliet and David exchanged glances . |
| 3 | At home , Daisy said that she was helping with Sunday school teaching . |
| 4 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 5 | It is likely that Tom Keating was painting with egg tempera ( made by combining egg yolk with dry pigment ) onto a varnish , probably a fine resin varnish such as mastic or , even more likely , varnish with linseed oil added , which was still wet . |
| 6 | George Male was walking to Upton Park tube station when he saw the bill : ‘ Herbert Chapman Dead . ’ |
| 7 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 8 | I was walking down Wood Street , Wakefield with a friend who , with a nudge and a nod , directed my attention to a couple gazing into a shop window . |
| 9 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 10 | No I was walking down Charles Street |
| 11 | A twenty-three year old man was attacked in the early hours of the morning as he was walking up Cowley Road . |
| 12 | He was walking along Suffolk Parade to the post office to draw his pension , when he was approached by two youths . |
| 13 | The victim was walking along Sunnyside Drive at 11.30pm on Thursday when a man ran behind her and grabbed at her body . |
| 14 | Another prosecution witness , David Moss , was walking along Akers Way , when , he said , he saw 2 cars speeding down the road . |
| 15 | A police spokesman confirmed a number of calls had been received from people worried about what was happening on Thursday afternoon . |
| 16 | The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing , in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants . |
| 17 | Our understanding of what was happening to party politics under William and Anne can only be complete when we consider the wider world outside Westminster , which will be the subject of the following chapter . |
| 18 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 19 | When he was World Champion in sports cars , driving Jaguars for Walkinshaw , Brundle was the soul and embodiment of unostentation , a steady King 's Lynn lad who dutifully wore the team 's Silk Cut blazer and a squaddie' short back and sides when he was appearing on team duty . |
| 20 | Mark Michael Kearney , formerly of Sycamore Road , Great Cornard , was appearing at Chelmsford Crown Court charged with robbery and two counts of attempted murder . |
| 21 | A CANINE hero who helped save a dog which was dying from rat poison is now looking for a good home . |
| 22 | Once free of the knotted tentacles of the eastern suburbs , Dalgliesh made good time and by three he was driving through Lydsett village . |
| 23 | Soon , he was driving along Stockwell Gate . |
| 24 | Occasionally , people act very strangely — I was driving down Edgware Road once and a taxi driver pulled up by me , and said , ‘ Sting ! |
| 25 | The court heard Largue , 19 , was driving over Victoria Bridge , Stockton , at at least 50mph in a 30mph limit zone . |
| 26 | ‘ Before the band ever happened I was driving around Hammersmith roundabout and I saw ‘ Nude picture of Patsy Kensit ! ’ on a sign , and I remember being slightly jealous , thinking . |
| 27 | But his main passion was boating in Southampton Water and other waters calmer than those which had ended his active service career . |
| 28 | HERE comes summer … and whether it was boating in Sefton Park , inset , or chasing a running prize , it all added to a warm day in the sunshine yesterday . |
| 29 | Gömbös supported a German-Hungarian-Italian axis and by 1938 a Hungarian Nazi party , the Arrow Cross , had been formed and was agitating for land reform and a restoration of the old frontiers . |
| 30 | A fund is being set up in memory of climber Tim Melton , 23 , from Sleights , near Whitby , who fell to his death when he was climbing at Peak Scar in North Yorkshire two weeks ago . |