Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later he was struggling under yards of silk only 20 feet down the other side of the hill , wrestling beneath the parachute like an actor in a soft porn film . |
| 2 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 3 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 4 | Thus was the criminal equated with the Vietcong soldier , the only difference being that the former was struggling against capitalism on the home front . |
| 5 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 6 | She was kneeling in front of a case of fine linen which Burun had brought for her from Kinsai . |
| 7 | Now she was kneeling in front of hundreds of people , weeping , making an adult decision , and so was Margaret , the timid one . |
| 8 | It was warm in the kitchen and the fire cast a soft light on Carrie who was kneeling in front of the fire , folding the blanket she had been airing . |
| 9 | As we trooped out of the hall , the old lady in the wheelchair was still trying to get up , and Clara Beeding was kneeling in front of her . |
| 10 | Allegra leaned even further forward , tears waterfalling down her thin , pale olive face , until her head was resting on top of the string in her son 's hands . |
| 11 | The 33-year-old proprietor of Alton Electrical was resting at home at Lime Grove , Alton , when we caught up with him . |
| 12 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 13 | Following an incident at Merton , in which silty ground water escaped in to the river from a settlement lagoon which the company was using in connection with work on the M forty . |
| 14 | Schering-Plough managing director Tony Cork said his team was relocating as part of its plans for further growth . |
| 15 | WHATEVER ELSE it brings , April 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon , the philosopher who perished in 1626 from bronchitis contracted in Highgate while he was experimenting with ways of preserving chickens in snow . |
| 16 | Deriving his theory from Newton 's laws of angular momentum , Laplace postulated that a vast disc-shaped pall of cold gas was rotating in space in the vicinity of our present solar system . |
| 17 | One still made her laugh : ‘ Have you ever tried writing a play ? ’ the little girl asked the dog who was typing on top of his kennel . |
| 18 | The fog had made her eye-black run and it lay in ridges in the lines under her eyes ; her hair was hanging in strands from under her hat . |
| 19 | The man 's body was hanging from swings in the Panton Road playground , Hoole , Chester . |
| 20 | WORRIED mum Pamela Pilbro spent three weeks searching for her 20-year-old son Philip — unaware that his decomposing body was hanging from rafters in the attic . |
| 21 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 22 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 23 | In isolating such groups for surveillance and regulation , the profession was drawing on changes within medical discourse . |
| 24 | Last night , he was recovering with relatives in nearby Deganwy . |
| 25 | Calan was recovering at home in Brisbane , Australia , yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ On one occasion when the girl was recovering in bed from ‘ flu , and was weak , the defendant came into her room and started to take off his clothes . |
| 27 | A year ago Gavin Moyle was recovering in hospital with a metal frame attached to his fractured skull . |
| 28 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 29 | A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was recovering in hospital in Cheltenham yesterday after biting his pet dog , which was attacking one of his friends . |
| 30 | Yesterday the youngster , who has not been named , was recovering in hospital from an emergency operation to save his sight . |