Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money . |
| 2 | A bespectacled , smartly dressed man was struggling to open the front passenger door of his parked car , while clutching a large paper bag of purchases from the all-night drug store he had just left . |
| 3 | I was struggling to grasp the aesthetics of it all . |
| 4 | Her mind was struggling to verbalise the emotions running riot inside her , but before she could complete the sentence she felt his lips on hers , hard and demanding . |
| 5 | I was struggling to set a mouse-trap . ’ |
| 6 | She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top . |
| 7 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 8 | My boss was struggling to finance every national park and game reserve in the country . |
| 9 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 10 | Every intonation in my voice was struggling to disguise the yes , yes , yeses that were bubbling under the surface . |
| 11 | Recently I met a speechreader who was struggling to understand a lady who spoke English with a French accent . |
| 12 | The service was brisk but I was struggling to understand the drawn-out diphthongs of a heavy accent which gave Ja at least two syllables . |
| 13 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 14 | Scathach hushed the old man , who was struggling to keep the flow of his words . |
| 15 | She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door . |
| 16 | In Tataria , which was demanding to sign the Union Treaty separately from Russia , President Mintimer Shaymiyev resigned from the CPSU central committee , and the Supreme Soviet abrogated the Council of Ministers ' decision to nationalize CPSU property . |
| 17 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 18 | Indeed , I was far more worried than she because the Seayak she was using had no storage tanks ( these are Prijon 's replacement for the more usual bulkhead system , the latter being very hard to make watertight in plastic boats ) and no pump . |
| 19 | Veronica put down the knife she was using to butter a muffin , and looked at her . |
| 20 | It 's thought the computer he was using to write the book was itself the cause of the fire . |
| 21 | Ironically it seems that the personal computer Mr Anderson was using to write the book was the cause of the fire . |
| 22 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 23 | When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ? |
| 24 | It became possible to argue that although the GDP had undoubtedly continued to grow under the Tories , and more rapidly than in Britain 's past , the jerky ‘ stop-go ’ process was helping to weaken the relative position of the British economy on the world market , a position which bad become exposed with the dismantling of the imperial trade preferences and the progressive liberalisation of world trade after Bretton Woods . |
| 25 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 26 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 27 | The mixture of the two styles is magically uncontrived at Waterston , set now in its cosy Edwardian garden laid out with great vision by Morley Horder , the architect who was helping to remodel the interior in 1911 . |
| 28 | ‘ She was helping to entertain the princes ? ’ |
| 29 | He tells the true story of a clergyman , Father Kleinsorge , who was helping to tend the wounded … . |
| 30 | The remaining third consisted of some jokes from Zach , a few sentences about animals from George and a patriotic essay from Ginnie about how collecting salvage was helping to win the war . |