Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Elisabeth stretched out full length on the couch and listened as Gerhardt related , ecstatically , how her love was unfolding like buds in May . |
| 32 | Meanwhile , back at bimbo ranch , Betty says her first kiss was snogging Tom Jones on the telly while he was singing on Top Of The Pops . |
| 33 | She was gazing at Pike in bewilderment . |
| 34 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 35 | ‘ The stewardess thought he was weeping for happiness at being free . |
| 36 | In the 1980–1 session , for example , it was catering for teachers of nearly twenty further education colleges within a radius of 100 miles of the Institute . |
| 37 | In fact , even as he spoke , the forces for change were there and rallying : the critique of the established constitutional authorities was eating into things below the froth of party politics ; the Liberal-SDP Alliance considered that the " key to … change lies in electoral and constitutional reform " ; and Tony Benn , generally recognised as leader of the radical left in the Labour Party , was telling large and enthusiastic audiences up and down the country that " constitutional questions are the key to power in a parliamentary democracy " and that " socialists need to give at least as much attention to the institutions of the state as to the power structure of the economy " . |
| 38 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 39 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 40 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 41 | Willis was walking towards Dreadnought with the man from the boatyard , whose manner suggested that he was refusing to supply more tar , gas and water until the previous bill had been paid . |
| 42 | Andrew Risdon , 14 , was walking with friends at Whitstone Primary School , near Bude , Cornwall , when the wall suddenly toppled . |
| 43 | Elizabeth was walking with Betty behind the doctor and April , who was clinging to his arm and , as it were , daintily tripping up . |
| 44 | At a little before ten o'clock he was walking along Moorgate towards the house on stilts , smoking his pipe and thinking about Sarah . |
| 45 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 46 | As soon as Chappy played a duff match last season , Wilko could n't drop him fast enough , yet he was knocking in goals at a far better rate than Deano . |
| 47 | A new and distinctive chapter was opening in relationships between the masses , more numerous , more literate , and better organized than ever before , and middle-class organizations and agencies who were realizing more urgently than ever before that new initiatives were needed to bridge the great abyss of class . |
| 48 | Fourthly , it is obvious that the overall decline in birth rate and population growth which was occurring as part of the demographic transition to small birth and death rates was greatly exaggerated by the poor economic conditions and the unemployment of the inter-war years . |
| 49 | Only her head was free to move by now and this she was tossing from side to side , her eyes rolling in panic , while her fear was further expressed in snorts and whimpers . |
| 50 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 51 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 52 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 53 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 54 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 55 | He still had difficulties focusing , but could tell clearly enough what was happening in front of him . |
| 56 | Blake could n't understand what was happening in front of him . |
| 57 | During the war when so much was happening in terms of national legislation , the extension of planning powers and the marked widening of Government involvement in affairs of land and development . |
| 58 | In effect land redistribution was happening in advance of C C P official policy . |
| 59 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 60 | In the mid-1960s Washington was pressing for decisions on a number of defence issues affecting Nato . |