Example sentences of "was [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days the old Empire News was waging a circulation battle in the West Country . |
| 2 | Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced , and was prophesying a bumper harvest . |
| 3 | The first time I came across the problem I was knitting a tuck stitch sweater . |
| 4 | Successful in three hurdle races in the West Country , Mardood won on the Flat at Catterick last month and was completing a nap hand inside seven weeks . |
| 5 | Mr Kidd said the committee was producing a draft guide for management which would include a review of existing legislation in six European countries . |
| 6 | If Mr Lamont was using a Gold Access card , as he says , it is also highly unlikely that he was exceeding his credit limit . |
| 7 | Text is input as if the user was using a word processing program and files from VIEW or WORDWISE can be incorporated . |
| 8 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 9 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 10 | The man whom Patrick had seen through binoculars was using an artillery sight to fine-tune the angle . |
| 11 | After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls . |
| 12 | ‘ I gather he was suggesting a conspiracy theory to the Steering Committee . |
| 13 | His victim , Pc Simon Lilley was manning a roadside checkpoint . |
| 14 | Physical attraction was drawing an insurance salesman into a web of murder . |
| 15 | She was singing a love song , you could tell by the eyebrows . |
| 16 | When I got to the house Ted was singing a pub song and he practically bundled me into a cupboard to discuss his favourite subject — Dad . |
| 17 | Capitalist development was generating a factory proletariat bearing all the characteristics Marx had depicted . |
| 18 | She was eating a cheese omelette and salad , which she was n't particularly interested in , when she owned to a feeling of restlessness . |
| 19 | He was eating a bacon sandwich and hurled the crusts into the gutter as the car drove off . |
| 20 | After the opening page , he noticed that he had retained nothing of what followed and that he was eating a potato crisp . |
| 21 | The mother was eating an ice-cream cone . |
| 22 | Early in March Mr Schuller announced that he was bringing a Seattle minister , the Rev Bruce Larson , to Garden Grove as his ‘ co-pilot ’ . |
| 23 | Increasingly , however , his policies and personality had been subjected to close scrutiny by both the media and the Republican Party , causing him to complain that the latter was pursuing a smear campaign against him [ see p. 38953 ] . |
| 24 | On one occasion Zborowski came in when Modigliani was painting a standing nude . |
| 25 | ‘ The referee at the time said Southall was denying a goalscoring opportunity . |
| 26 | Sheene , who now lives in Australia , was opening a watersports resort in the Cotswolds . |
| 27 | Di was opening a care unit in Earl 's Court , London , for drug users with HIV . |
| 28 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 29 | She was applying a face pack . |
| 30 | Howard , who was becoming a country gentleman with some town property ( as opposed to his father , who would have seen himself as a London merchant with a country house ) , set about enlarging and redecorating his ‘ country seat ’ . |