Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wynne-Jones shuddered ; Tallis thought he was coughing with pain , but he was laughing . |
| 2 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 3 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 4 | My heart was thumping with disquiet . |
| 5 | A floor gargoyle exhaled air that was cooler , yet the refrigeration unit was thumping in distress . |
| 6 | Our Pastor was preaching on Psalm 37 and verses 5 and 6 really spoke to me . |
| 7 | Furthermore he was preaching against Calvinism . |
| 8 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 9 | No wonder I was struggling over money ! |
| 10 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 11 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 12 | It showed that beneath the granite exterior emotion did exist , even if it was struggling for survival . |
| 13 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 14 | She loved Bobbie for his devotion and loyalty to her in the days when she had few friends and was struggling for recognition . |
| 15 | But Ruth sensed he wanted to speak , and was struggling through pain and craziness to do so . |
| 16 | Thus was the criminal equated with the Vietcong soldier , the only difference being that the former was struggling against capitalism on the home front . |
| 17 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 18 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 19 | She was kneeling in front of a case of fine linen which Burun had brought for her from Kinsai . |
| 20 | Now she was kneeling in front of hundreds of people , weeping , making an adult decision , and so was Margaret , the timid one . |
| 21 | It was warm in the kitchen and the fire cast a soft light on Carrie who was kneeling in front of the fire , folding the blanket she had been airing . |
| 22 | As we trooped out of the hall , the old lady in the wheelchair was still trying to get up , and Clara Beeding was kneeling in front of her . |
| 23 | Allegra leaned even further forward , tears waterfalling down her thin , pale olive face , until her head was resting on top of the string in her son 's hands . |
| 24 | The 33-year-old proprietor of Alton Electrical was resting at home at Lime Grove , Alton , when we caught up with him . |
| 25 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 26 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 27 | On a different plane , it may be noted that just before 1984 's seven-country G7 economic summit in London , Japan was clamouring for access , in the event of a supply disruption , to the US SPR . |
| 28 | Nuadu stayed where he was , but his mind was tumbling with horror and revulsion . |
| 29 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 30 | A couple of days ago , Tony Donaldson thought , it was pissing with rain and half-freezing ; now everybody was stamping around in wellingtons and three pullovers , about as appropriate as scuba gear on a parachute drop . |