Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said Tottenham were receiving over £1m for Lineker . |
| 2 | My eldest daughter Ailsa was staying there part of the time , studying art at the Byam Shaw College of Art , and falling in love with her tutor , whom she later married . |
| 3 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 4 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 5 | By his mid 20s , Mike was earning around $40,000 , but paying tax on far less . |
| 6 | Luke Hunter was standing only feet away from her , almost filling the door with his towering presence . |
| 7 | Sergei was saying mostly Da and Nyet , with long intervals in between . |
| 8 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 9 | Originally , Jimmy was building mainly dulcimers and acoustic guitars , but soon came to recognise the demand for quality hand-built electrics . |