Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 4 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 5 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 6 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 7 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 8 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 9 | The string was walking round in a circle at the end of the gallops when Bill 's Audi drew up . |
| 10 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 11 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 12 | The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street , looking around him with an expression of keen interest . |
| 13 | He was thrashing about in a circle , trying to escape and kept shouting , ‘ Help me ! |
| 14 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 15 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 16 | Mrs Chalk was clattering round in the kitchen , and a savoury aroma was wafting from that region . |
| 17 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 18 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him , four hours after drinking with him . ’ |
| 19 | Maybe she was lying out in the desert right now with her prettiness all ruined by bloody holes . |
| 20 | Gurder moved closer and glanced over his shoulder at Angalo , who was lying back in the control seat with a look of dreamy contentment on his face . |
| 21 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 22 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 23 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 24 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 25 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 26 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 27 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 28 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 29 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 30 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |