Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But walking inside was like walking into some hijacked piece of a South Sea island . |
| 2 | An assignment of a deposit , in whole or in part , made while a bank is trading normally was not struck down . |
| 3 | Not the least of the many surprises I got on returning home was to find that all that had changed . |
| 4 | Part of the ritual of returning home was hearing the loud injunction to passengers to remind them to change if necessary : ‘ Fontanellato , Soragna , Busseto , Noceto , Medesano , si cambia ! ’ |
| 5 | Trading yesterday was modest , reflecting the Yom Kippur Jewish holiday . |
| 6 | But what was happening now was that the bream were frequently dropping the bait before I could strike . |
| 7 | His praying likewise was full of life and feeling . |
| 8 | Acting carelessly was insufficient . |
| 9 | CASE STUDY 2.1 A newly blind old woman living alone was referred by her next door neighbour for a place in a residential home . |
| 10 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 11 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 12 | Living alone was like the idea of a hairshirt to George . |
| 13 | Although headhunting generally was gaining a professional reputation , he continued , in London especially the business was still seen as ‘ rather dodgy ’ . |
| 14 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 15 | The most famous of the family living here was Mary Elizabeth Gaunt , born daughter of Antony Fothergill . |
| 16 | The European Commission 's protest that they were distorting competition by acting unilaterally was successfully beaten in the European Court . |
| 17 | The mortal faculty of looking ahead was granted to him rarely , and then usually at dead of night . |
| 18 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 19 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |
| 20 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 21 | Bracken Cottage on a spring evening was a pleasant place , but celebrating alone was a contradiction in terms , she decided , as she took a sip of wine and looked without interest at the food on her plate . |
| 22 | Waiting below was Michael Sams , who had left a tray on the bridge parapet for the money . |
| 23 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 24 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 25 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 26 | Ono was still around in issue two ; growing fast was an interest in censorship and pornography , to join dope , flying saucers , ley-lines , and rock as obsessions of the nascent underground . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the chapter it was stated that selling overseas was ‘ different ’ to selling in the home market . |
| 28 | The Category C Winner for consultancy or other service companies selling abroad was Warrenpoint based company , Treatwater Limited . |
| 29 | Pacemaking then was more predictable than now ; in a well-organised handicap someone like Wooderson always had a target just ahead . |
| 30 | Anyway , the first thing I noticed as I was going upstairs was one of Popova 's pictures with a bath-tub hanging over it … |