Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 2 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 3 | Rain was seeing again the solicitous side of Maurin , the man who could talk kindly to Durance when the man was devastated at the death of his friend . |
| 4 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 5 | Uncle Albert was struggling down the garden path carrying a heavy shopping bag . |
| 6 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 7 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 8 | He was using just a small group — a sax player , a keyboard player , bass and drums , as I recall — and he was really wailing . |
| 9 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 10 | However , whether Mrs Thatcher meant by ‘ us ’ , the British , the Government , or whether she was using again the royal ‘ we ’ , is not clear . |
| 11 | He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer . |
| 12 | GRANDMOTHER Phyllis O'Riley was cooking up a special present for herself last night after scooping the £10,000 jackpot on Mirror Bingo . |
| 13 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 14 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 15 | Why , I remember being in a stagecoach , with the Apaches attacking , and out on the road with Henry Fonda and the Okies and shooting Tyrone Power while he was hanging up a picture … ’ |
| 16 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 17 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 18 | Used to the my whole down there than it was hanging up the , really I mean |
| 19 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 20 | She hesitated , looking at her mother , who was hanging on every word , then at Wycliffe . |
| 21 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 22 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 23 | He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking . |
| 24 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 25 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 26 | Like to catch something that was hanging on the tree , no one would catch it and hang there . |
| 27 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 28 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 29 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 30 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |