Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 2 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 3 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 4 | Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause , of course , but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp . |
| 5 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 6 | The police Sergeant was kneeling beside the wounded man , pressing a pad against his side to stop the flow of blood . |
| 7 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 8 | He heard Paddy 's whisper from where he was kneeling in the front row and it had quite a chilling effect . |
| 9 | The Sergeant was kneeling by the sprawled body of the fourth man present . |
| 10 | Now she was rattling along the empty streets , the horse 's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh ? ’ she questioned carefully , while her brain was rattling off the clamouring question — was he saying that he would give her a lift ? |
| 12 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 13 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 14 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 15 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 16 | Thus the emotively articulated skies and sleek luminosity with which Titian was experimenting in the early 1520s are echoed and developed in Palma and Lotto and Dosso , and the fluid and broken brushwork of the last three decades — itself , in part , a response to Schiavone — is transmuted in Tintoretto and Bassano . |
| 17 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 18 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 19 | Caspar was sniffing at the dead magpie . |
| 20 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 21 | She was hanging over the wrought-iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot-air balloons . |
| 22 | Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels . |
| 23 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 24 | He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |
| 25 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 26 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 27 | The organisers also gave a special award to veteran runner Albert Dolman , who was competing in the tenth consecutive run . |
| 28 | He blamed the delays on ‘ the realities of getting practical things off the ground ’ , but insisted that the Government was sticking to the original target figure and they were making ‘ excellent progress ’ . |
| 29 | But the real drama was building between the British and the French again . |
| 30 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |