Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seeing Comrade Andrew , as Alice knew , for she , too , visited Comrade Andrew who seemed to want to talk about Bert , making no secret of his plan for him , which was that he should follow the path of job , flat , security and respectability . |
| 2 | He was seeing Lauren Bacall sauntering across a room , shoulders high , slim hips moving . |
| 3 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 4 | One Tory , Paul Marland was seeing John Major today , before finally deciding . |
| 5 | For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 's force of Nassauers . |
| 6 | Just hours after Lisa 's mother confirmed the 21-year-old model was seeing Princess Diana 's friend James Gilbey , fiery Marco wrapped a protective arm around her shoulder and escorted her back to her family home in Fulham , west London . |
| 7 | She was seeing Hector Henderson , and more and more as the days went on found that she needed him , his simplicity and his jolliness . |
| 8 | What if everybody was demanding lull portions for their children ? |
| 9 | The union was demanding wage increases of 216 per cent , while the industrialists ' association had offered 90 per cent . |
| 10 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 11 | In other words , a college had substantial Government money but was producing education standards that were not satisfactory to the inspectorate . |
| 12 | The US wanted to be able to remove that screen with a fanfare to reveal a machine that was producing fusion energy . |
| 13 | It was feared the burning Alloprene was producing phosgene gas , carbon tetrachloride and hydrochloric acid . |
| 14 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 15 | The pilot was flying the aircraft fairly close to the ground and was using road signs to help determine his location . |
| 16 | His other principal concern was using steam power to open up the interior of Africa to trade . |
| 17 | In 1870 , G.F. Tabram was using Dyehouse Mill for shoddy . |
| 18 | By 1874 , William Grist , the flock and shoddy magnate , was Using St Mary 's Mill , possibly for around a decade , but by 1890 , the mill again fell silent . |
| 19 | Most of the neighbours were craftsmen of one sort or another — a shoemaker , a signwriter and a builder appear in the commercial directories for 1881 — though at least one master mariner was using Cumberland Street as his land-base at the time . |
| 20 | Within days of the election result and devastating discrediting of opinion polls , Peter Kellner was using opinion polls to explain why things were n't really that bad for the Labour Party . |
| 21 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 22 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 23 | The National Audit Office confirmed last night it was auditing Crown Suppliers accounts , and was examining its prospects for privatisation . |
| 24 | While they were saying so , Marshall was contacting Mrs Tavett and learning that her husband had said he was going to the surgery that morning but had not been home since . |
| 25 | The second part of Wade 's work was repairing Edinburgh Castle and Fort William , at the western end of the Great Glen which runs diagonally from Inverness right across Scotland and forms a natural barrier separating the northern third of the country from the rest . |
| 26 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 27 | ‘ But Mr Kronquist , as several of you already know , was assisting Mrs Sheila Williams during most of the afternoon in question with the temperamental kaleidoscope allocated to her for her illustrated talk on ‘ Alice ’ . |
| 28 | Janet had come in and was assisting aunt Emily to her feet . |
| 29 | Bakatin also announced , in a sign of the changes , that he was overruling KGB objections and would allow Oleg Gordievsky 's wife and children to join him in London , where he had defected in 1985 [ see pp. 34004-05 ] . |
| 30 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |