Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 2 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 3 | I was looking forward to talk a bit about er , what they 're doing er , in the way of seminars and so on this year and how we can tie in with it , and how we 're going to erm , actually take over the forum plan for Eurofile . |
| 4 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 5 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 6 | The epidural was working and I could n't feel any real pain apart from the belt and I was lying there watching the monitor shoot up and down as the baby moved around . |
| 7 | Leaning back in a wicker chair sat Doctor Oswald Little , a plump , red-faced man who was attempting vainly to wipe the steam from his spectacles . |
| 8 | And she was going upstairs to turn the bed down she 'd done it for |
| 9 | I was going inside to ask the way to the doctor 's house . |
| 10 | ‘ I was going home to get a new hearing-aid . |
| 11 | He was getting nowhere making an appeal to their sense of order so he had to do something . |
| 12 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 13 | He was staying behind to explain the situation tactfully and bring the party to an end , and Belinda was sure that no one would object to leaving — with the possible exception of Greg . |
| 14 | ‘ Bessie was 'avin' ter do the servin' an' yer know I do n't like 'er be'ind the counter more than need be . |
| 15 | He moved closer to where his daughter was starting again to brush the mud from the coat that hung on the side of the kitchen dresser . |
| 16 | Whatever he was saying clearly discomfited the librarian . |
| 17 | When I finally caught up with my sprinting friend , who was standing innocently taking a swig from his water bottle , the needles on all my body dials were twitching into red . |
| 18 | Michael Stein was trying unsuccessfully to calm an irate customer who was arguing about his bill . |
| 19 | ‘ But if they 're given money for the food … ’ the Substitute was trying vainly to put a bouncing lighter to his cigar . |
| 20 | However the real point is that Tolkien was trying continually to extend the frontiers of style beyond the barbed wire of modern opinion . |
| 21 | Now five years old , he went to school in Warminster and was trying hard to adopt a Dorset accent , having been teased about the snob way he talked . |
| 22 | Benedicta was trying hard to keep a straight face . |
| 23 | He protested to Theo at one point that he was trying hard to keep the peace — but how hard ? |
| 24 | I was trying hard to absorb the bizarre happenings of the day . |
| 25 | Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race . |
| 26 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 27 | He was working hard to complete a special project for Friday , and had already told her he would give her a hand at the weekend . |
| 28 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |