Example sentences of "which was [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 2 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 3 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 4 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 5 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 6 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 7 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 8 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |