Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other pleasure of the first half was seeing Beeny perform competently in goal , and the defence doing likewise . |
| 2 | I think the thing that really upset him was seeing Werewolf slide across the BMW 's bonnet to get to the driver 's door . |
| 3 | When he re-emerged , the others had adjourned to the kitchen , where Ronni was helping Agnese arrange stuffed salami slices on a plate , while a couple of young girls , specially recruited from the neighbourhood , busily chopped and whipped and blended , and Filippo polished a mountain of crystal glasses . |
| 4 | Rachel turned to Sybil , who was helping Belinda put the strap of her shoulder-bag over her head . |
| 5 | Her father was helping Alice get tea . |
| 6 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 7 | Where the prosecutor relies on a continuing course of conduct , as will often be the case with offences under this section , a claim that the actor had failed to advert to the consequences that his conduct was having will lack plausibility . |
| 8 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 9 | Unfortunately it was making Charity feel like a stranger in her own skin . |
| 10 | And suddenly it could be a story , a funny story that was making Hermione laugh . |
| 11 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 12 | The noxious stench of the scorched vinegar and burning sulphur was making Jane feel ill , but in truth she had not felt really well ever since the sea crossing from England . |