Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet had come in and was assisting aunt Emily to her feet . |
| 2 | First past the post yesterday was building consultant Dennis Nicholls , 52 , from , Bletchley , Bucks , on a 1899 one-gear Romain Tricycle . |
| 3 | Still unpublished is a biography which Sir Dick was helping author Andrew Boyle to write . |
| 4 | Korn met Ferry when the former was directing Peat Marwick Mitchell 's West Coast headhunting division ; Ferry had arrived from Haskins & Sells and the Financial Corporation of Arizona . |
| 5 | and another Gloucestershire winner this weekend was racing trainer David Nicholson … |
| 6 | It seems like only yesterday that the charming Mike Gatting , then England 's captain , was calling umpire Shakoor Rana ‘ a cheating b*****d . ’ |
| 7 | Also presented with a 20 year long service award was vending engineer Tommy O'Donnell . |
| 8 | On April 6th , unbeknown to the Hohenzollern Crown Prince , he was asking Crown Prince Rupprecht whether his Sixth Army might not be able to carry out a swift blow at Arras , against the British Army , whose anticipated ( by Falkenhayn ) relief attack had not yet materialised . |