Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 3 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 4 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 5 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 6 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 8 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 9 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 10 | The authors reported that as this project progressed interest in the teaching of study skills increased and this interest was filtering through into the primary schools sector . |
| 11 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 12 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 13 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 14 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 15 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 16 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 17 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 18 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 19 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 20 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 21 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 22 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 23 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 24 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 25 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 26 | There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time , but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra . |
| 27 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 28 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |
| 29 | Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent ’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . |
| 30 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |