Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 2 | Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts . |
| 3 | In those days the old Empire News was waging a circulation battle in the West Country . |
| 4 | France was maintaining an army of 150,000 men in Indo-China , of whom , by the end of 1949 , 16,000 were killed or missing . |
| 5 | Our custodians used to be dressed in the same uniform as prison warders and their task was maintaining the monument and its grounds . |
| 6 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 7 | At the next table , the black African diplomat was impressing the girl he was with . |
| 8 | Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced , and was prophesying a bumper harvest . |
| 9 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 10 | Ken himself was seeing a psychiatrist because of his own depressions . |
| 11 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 12 | Myler , 31 , was seeing a specialist amid fears he could be advised to quit . |
| 13 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 14 | I thought I was seeing a ghost . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to . |
| 16 | Late on Friday afternoon Shelley was trying not to think of the exciting young Miguelito , while she was seeing a family of four children who had all caught chickenpox . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew that Elise was seeing a lot of someone . |
| 18 | It was as if she was seeing a stranger , a stranger with her daughter 's face and body . |
| 19 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |
| 20 | He was seeing the Rorim as it should be , without the threat of ruin hanging over it — though tomorrow these same people would be stinting themselves to eke out their supplies through the winter . |
| 21 | Dr Peter Brunt was seeing the Queen Mother this morning , when he would determine how long she would remain in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 22 | She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’ |
| 23 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 24 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 25 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 26 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 27 | She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin , and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally . |
| 28 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 29 | Heartless thieves stole the pushchair of two-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Thomas Wright while he was seeing the doctor . |
| 30 | Then , still smiling and holding her confused startled gaze , he brushed her cheek softly with the head of the flower , almost as though he was bestowing a caress , before leaning forward and tucking the stem behind her ear . |