Example sentences of "was [v-ing] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 2 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 3 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 4 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 6 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 7 | He got up and was about to return to his house to wash the dirt from Meg 's grave from his hands when Cranston swaggered in , throwing the door open as if he was announcing the Second Coming . |
| 8 | A 46 year old Worcestershire man , who was driving the second car , also died . |
| 9 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 10 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 11 | On top of all his other commitments , Lewis was writing the second volume of his space trilogy . |
| 12 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 13 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 14 | Dexter was pulling the last layer of bandages away , using the scissors to snip off any loose pieces , exposing the face beneath . |
| 15 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 16 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 17 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 18 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 19 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 20 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 21 | But he was n't too keen on the idea of Donald arriving just as Elinor was wiping the last traces of chicken thallium off her lips . |
| 22 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 23 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 24 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 25 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 27 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 28 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 29 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 30 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |