Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 2 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 3 | In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins . |
| 4 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 5 | She gave a light , forced little laugh , moving away from the touch of his hand , which was wreaking such havoc on emotions she had tried so hard to keep under control . |
| 6 | The Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 18 that it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel , which was refusing to appoint an ambassador while Waldheim remained President . |
| 7 | Robert Fellowes commissioned Soane , who was building several houses in East Anglia at that time , to design his family seat in willowy country just south of Norwich near Shotesham All Saints , a village with a winding stream and Dutch gabled cottages . |
| 8 | ‘ His was a very difficult job as he was helping large numbers of people in a number of different locations . ’ |
| 9 | HOLLYWOOD legend Audrey Hepburn was recovering last night after emergency surgery to remove a tumour from her colon . |
| 10 | By the end of the period the Reactor was generating 570 MW of electricity . |
| 11 | At the moment Steve was eating baked beans on toast with easy pleasure . |
| 12 | ‘ I was enjoying that cup of tea , ’ he said mournfully . |
| 13 | Sinatra , dubbed ‘ The Voice ’ , was enjoying enormous popularity on radio , in nightclubs and now in films . |
| 14 | He in the meantime had taken off in his Jungmann and , together with a visiting Jodel , was enjoying some circuit-bashing at Breighton whilst awaiting my return . |
| 15 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 16 | The palaeontologist was an Ezekiel calling to life the dry bones ; but in this case the old sign ‘ here be dragons ’ was apt , and the prophet was bringing diabolical creatures to life — perhaps a Frankenstein rather than an Ezekiel . |
| 17 | Buhle was bringing that situation under control . |
| 18 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 19 | Just as Frederick was gaining increasing power in Italy , and it seemed that the Holy See would become isolated from general support , Lucius died in November of 1185 and the new Pope Urban III , was one of Barbarossa 's fiercest opponents . |
| 20 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |
| 21 | The movement was founded by George Fox , who was walking one day on Pendle Hill when , as he said , the sky opened and the Lord showed him a great multitude of people waiting to be saved . |
| 22 | Standard Chartered said on June 12 that it was launching criminal proceedings in India to recover an estimated US$299,800,000 lost in the securities scandal . |
| 23 | Even before the introduction of the Law Society 's Protocol , it was becoming common practice for evidence of title to be supplied before contracts were exchanged . |
| 24 | Harry received him in the large parlour , against whose windows a summer gale was hurling heavy drops of rain . |
| 25 | The guy who owns it was shouting all kinds of stuff and he let it slip . |
| 26 | By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system . |
| 27 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 28 | De Gaulle was refusing military co-operation within NATO unless the Anglo-American nuclear club was widened into a tri-partite relationship ; and Washington feared that the Germans might also start pressing for a finger on the nuclear trigger . |
| 29 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 30 | Foreign Minister Theodore Holo disclosed on Nov. 5 that the government was seeking renewed ties with Israel but did not give a timetable for normalizing relations . |