Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was depending on Francesca to look after Thornton , and give him lunch and introduce him around , since she 'll be working with him . ’ |
| 2 | It was daring of McChrystal to start with Bach on the saxophone , even if this sonata — normally for violin or flute — is of very doubtful authenticity . |
| 3 | One day , Walton relates , as he was walking to Salisbury to worship in the Cathedral and play music with his friends , |
| 4 | Late in the day , against the dollar the pound was trading at $1.4490 compared with $1.4495 . |
| 5 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 6 | The outspoken tone of the article was typical of the style of writing the periodical was developing with authors shielded by anonymity . |
| 7 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 8 | And here came ‘ Space Oddity ’ which was coinciding with men landing on the moon , which is what I think inspired him to write it , there is no question about it . |
| 9 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 10 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 11 | The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London . |
| 12 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 13 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 14 | By the time Philip Miller came to Chelsea thirteen years later , attention was turning towards imports arriving from the East as well as the West . |
| 15 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 16 | Agnes was speaking through teeth clenched against any further emotion , and fumbling in her handbag . |
| 17 | Rodriguez was starting with prawns wrapped in bacon . |
| 18 | Was recruiting by companies affected by the Big Bang and/or the stock market crash of October 1987 ? |
| 19 | Councillor Fred Crowe ( UU ) was joining in tributes paid to the RUC and Army at Craigavon Borough Council on their success in detecting and dealing with a bomb last month . |
| 20 | Councillor Fred Crowe ( UU ) was joining in tributes paid to the RUC and Army at a Craigavon Council meeting after the security forces detected a bomb in transit . |
| 21 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 22 | One day when we were at the hospital , Michael was undressing behind screens preparing for his treatment and I was helping him ; and we heard the radiographer say , ‘ If you hear a lot of laughter coming from behind those screens , Doctor , it 's only the Homes . |
| 23 | I was particularly impressed with the comments that Mike was making about organization makes to charity which it does n't acknowledge , it does n't sort of er seek to publicize erm but I wish |
| 24 | A year or two later , I was talking to John Heminges about the costumes for Will 's new play , King John . |
| 25 | He was talking about trade links between Britain and Korea . |
| 26 | One minute he was talking about Leeds struggling against Wimbledon because they hoof it into the air , next minute that Wimbledon do/can play some nice football , the very next statement that they always just kicked it as hard as possible into the air . |
| 27 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 28 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north . |
| 29 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 30 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |