Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who on earth was thumping at the door like that early in the morning ? |
| 2 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 3 | You said your partner was seeing to the tourist board and the airlines here in Palma — ’ |
| 4 | But it was as if , for the first time , he was seeing beyond the image his assumptions had created . |
| 5 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 6 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 7 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 8 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 9 | Bodie received the message about the sneaky departure of Chrissie and the two children as he was jogging round the block , just after six in the morning . |
| 10 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 11 | She was kneeling beside the child , putting on his pyjamas , when Vitor appeared in the doorway . |
| 12 | Freddie Moore had watched the attack by the fighters , and ten minutes later , after a hectic cross-country drive in his little sports car , he was kneeling beside the pilot . |
| 13 | Inside the kitchen , Frobisher was kneeling beside the body , peering through his bifocals at the horrible dent in the skull . |
| 14 | Before he knew what he was doing , Dougal had scrambled into the gazebo and was kneeling beside the body . |
| 15 | Dr Rees , the police surgeon , was kneeling beside the body . |
| 16 | Sung was kneeling on the top of the dyke , staring across at the House as the dawn broke . |
| 17 | She was kneeling on the floor , wiping her hands together . |
| 18 | She was on Beth 's heels all the way back to the drawing room , and now , when Beth was seated in the big armchair and eagerly slitting open the envelope with the tortoise-shell letter-knife , Cissie was kneeling on the floor beside her . |
| 19 | Ruth , who was kneeling on the floor , turned also to look at her . |
| 20 | James was kneeling on the floor in front of one of the lacquer cabinets , which he had opened . |
| 21 | Matthew was kneeling on the floor looking into her eyes beside the couch and his arm was around her . |
| 22 | An elderly man was kneeling on the pavement , sawing a slice from the bottom of his front door , to prevent it from jamming . |
| 23 | Cissie was kneeling on the rug , her back to the fire and her slim body bent forward over the bath . |
| 24 | Gradually you saw this self-absorbed monarch stripped down of all his trappings , until a wonderful scene when he was kneeling on the ground staring at his reflection , and suddenly he shattered the mirror against his foreheard . |
| 25 | And now Little Billy was kneeling on the chair , gazing with longing through the window at the famous Forest of Sin . |
| 26 | Malc was kneeling at the altar and a price ticket of 39/11d ( nearly two quid ) decorated the sole of his shoe . |
| 27 | Poor Damien was kneeling at the entrance to the sanctuary screen , an easy target for someone lurking here with a crossbow . ’ |
| 28 | Will was standing in the bowl of water and Craig Grenfell was kneeling before the boy , scrubbing him thoroughly with a piece of flannel . |
| 29 | He was kneeling before the fire , his hands and face black with coal dust . |
| 30 | He was kneeling in the middle of the lounge fixing small bulbs to the roof rack of Signe 's VW . |