Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 2 | The US wanted to be able to remove that screen with a fanfare to reveal a machine that was producing fusion energy . |
| 3 | It was feared the burning Alloprene was producing phosgene gas , carbon tetrachloride and hydrochloric acid . |
| 4 | His other principal concern was using steam power to open up the interior of Africa to trade . |
| 5 | In 1870 , G.F. Tabram was using Dyehouse Mill for shoddy . |
| 6 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 7 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |
| 8 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
| 9 | The court emphasised that it was upholding party autonomy and would not rewrite the contract to take account of subsequent concerns . |
| 10 | Delegates in this room from Apex may recognize me as someone that used to get up and say I was representing Apex Public Service and Management Branch . |
| 11 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 12 | This was becoming Stress City and I was too old for it . |
| 13 | The place was becoming Liberty Hall . |
| 14 | BAA , owner of Heathrow , London , the world 's busiest international airport , said yesterday it was seeking planning permission to build a fifth passenger terminal which would cost up to £900 million . |
| 15 | Mr Major was meeting Agriculture Minister John Gummer this afternoon for a report on the meeting in Chicago . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the station confirmed that the 27-year-old Anfieldborn DJ was meeting City FM chiefs . |
| 17 | This does not mean to say that Marryat was writing documentary fiction . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was writing Firefly Summer , I did n't keep a notebook from the beginning , and I found myself having someone expelled from school who , when I checked , turned out to be 28 . |
| 19 | Alina was serving morning coffee on the terrace . |
| 20 | Fastest on the 26 mile course was Kegging Process man , who finished in three hours 15 minutes in his third London marathon . |
| 21 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 22 | Philippa was cleaning silver nail varnish from her nails with a substance whose odour reminded Lee of some exotic flower turning rancid . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 24 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 26 | Mr Prescott , who plans to table amendments to the airport security bill , said Mr Parkinson was paying lip service to screening and giving no indication when this would be achieved . |
| 27 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
| 28 | The last I heard he was selling hair oil |
| 29 | He was selling teddy boy gear but what he was wearing — drecky as it was — had moved on beyond that into something new . |
| 30 | He 's told everybody he was fixing poll tax levels , and he had n't got the power to do that . |