Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 2 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 3 | Foreign Affairs Minister Theo Ben Gurirab , addressing on April 30 the UN General Assembly special session on economic co-operation [ see p. 37476 ] , said that Namibia was drawing up foreign investment legislation to provide the guarantees which " international investors normally expect " , with special incentives for projects promoting investment and training . |
| 4 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |
| 5 | It was 11.00 p.m. at night when the victim , in her early 30s , was walking down this alleyway off Barton Street in Tewkesbury . |
| 6 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 7 | She was walking back one day , her baskets empty , her spirit almost peaceful for once . |
| 8 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 9 | Then the van was leaping over rough ground , getting out of sight of the road . |
| 10 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 11 | There was support for coalition in the North and in Scotland , where local cooperation was pushing back municipal socialism in 1920–21 , and also in Birmingham , where Austen Chamberlain traded on the family name and Neville brooded uneasily on the course of events . |
| 12 | he was pulling up that water you know the |
| 13 | The wireless was blaring out light organ music through the kitchen window . |
| 14 | I was worrying over some homework |
| 15 | Parked was here , I was going up that way . |
| 16 | And I was going up this ladder . |
| 17 | When asked if she was going out that evening , Becky replied , ‘ Well , I was n't , but I certainly am now ! ’ |
| 18 | In a backyard shack in a Dallas suburb , and outside of normal working hours , he was turning out custom-built metal detectors that were of such advanced design for their day , that they wee superior to many of the commercially available machines of the time . |
| 19 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 20 | In those days , we had n't got chromium buttons — I had gone home soaked to the skin , after eight hours ' rain , dried the stuff and was coming out next morning . |
| 21 | ‘ He was coming down this path from the ferry , and here he was struck down as he passed by . |
| 22 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |
| 23 | Despite Levack 's recently winning contracts totalling more than £6 million for Marks & Spencer 's Maybury site , in Edinburgh , and the Bankhead Interchange , in Fife , the recession was cutting back new business . |
| 24 | You know he was cutting out some card |
| 25 | He was running off some sort of three-page newsletter under a clenched fist wrapped in barbed wire masthead . |
| 26 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 27 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 28 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 29 | Observers suggested that Azerbaijan 's military action was taking on renewed force following the victory of nationalist leader Abulfez Elchibey in presidential elections [ see p. 38976 ] . |
| 30 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |