Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 2 | Randy Mueller was darting from one Vice President to another like an agitated blue-bottle . |
| 3 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 4 | A mass of bodies scrambled over the shelves , everybody was shouting at one another and books were being thrown in all directions . |
| 5 | While the rest of Britain was shivering in one of the most sodden , miserable June months on record , the west coast of Wales had been sizzling through a heatwave . |
| 6 | But this peedie fairy anyway , it was wandering about one day very disconsolate at the prospect and found a sparrow with a broken wing . |
| 7 | ‘ Brigitte Krone : she was living with one of the families Gustav hid up with that winter . |
| 8 | She was living in one of the small private hotels in Cromer on Social Security . |
| 9 | He was living in one of the old stone huts on the moor . |
| 10 | I was boasting about one of the sketches ( the one I liked best ) . |
| 11 | Next to him , his back to the gramophone , his friend Danny was looking at one of the Meccano magazines he had been given . |
| 12 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 13 | ‘ Help me ! ’ said a voice in his head , and Jack knew he was listening to one of the Ram children . |
| 14 | It did n't seem as if the awful man was listening to one word of what she was saying ! |
| 15 | I mean I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 16 | I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 17 | I do n't know , I was listening to one of my headphones , alright I pulled it out |
| 18 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 19 | When the train had stopped , it was found that the child 's body was lying on one side of the rails but his head had been completely severed from the body . |
| 20 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 21 | A slender man with a wisp of grey beard and an air of pleasant idleness was lying on one elbow beside a yew . |
| 22 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 23 | The tool box was lying in one corner of the room , close to the cellar hatch . |
| 24 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 25 | Though he had no hope of beating Stevie or Buck , he was heading for one of the best net scores of the day . |
| 26 | That was where Obispal was heading from one direction . |
| 27 | The taxi driver was squatting by one of Bonefish 's gateposts where he surreptitiously smoked a cigarette . |
| 28 | I was browsing in one of the bookshops recently , and discovered several books which were ‘ books of lists ’ . |
| 29 | Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green . |
| 30 | But what better way of fooling the enemy when your Prime Minister was going to one place than by having a double suggest he was somewhere else altogether ? |