Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After seventy years of atheism , religion was re-emerging in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | And the fire brigade was coming along the road , we could hear it coming you know . |
| 3 | Certain stock was missing from the infirmary , including a number of mackintosh sheets . |
| 4 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 5 | Now the stranger was standing on the quayside , watching several straining seamen carry a large , brass-bound chest down the gangplank . |
| 6 | A lone jeep was careering up the middle of the 18th fairway , bucking and bouncing in its haste to reach the scene of the ‘ exercise . ’ |
| 7 | ON TUESDAY 8 October 1957 , a physicist was working on the No.1 ‘ pile ’ at the Windscale atomic energy establishment in Cumberland . |
| 8 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 9 | At the house of the Chief Scribe , Reni 's major domo was waiting at the gate to meet them . |
| 10 | A pro-Khomeini mutiny began among Air Force technicians ( known as homagars ) and then spread to other ranks ; by 10 February the Air Force was fighting against the Imperial Guard . |
| 11 | After the battles of Midway , El Alamein and Stalingrad it was apparent that , to paraphrase Churchill , the ring was closing round the Axis and there could be only one outcome . |
| 12 | The President was responding to the defeat on Feb. 19 of the ruling National Party ( NP ) in a by-election in Potchefstroom , in the western Transvaal , where the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official white opposition party , won a majority of 2,140 , overturning the NP 1989 general election majority of 1,583 . |
| 13 | The defendant was standing in the dock awaiting the sentence which was given immediately for the charge which had been reduced to manslaughter . |
| 14 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 15 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 16 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 17 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 18 | At a thanksgiving service her second in command was writing at the top of the steps for one of the leaders to arrive . |
| 19 | The image came and went , but it was sharper , the fuzz was clearing round the edges . |
| 20 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 21 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
| 22 | Her mind was drifting on the waves of her pain . |
| 23 | Already Lavender 's scheming mind was going over the possibilities that this water-jug job had opened up for her . |
| 24 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 25 | His face was totally devoid of expression , but the intensity of his gaze told her his mind was working with the speed and emotionless precision of a computer . |
| 26 | At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction . |
| 27 | Pion was staring at the sky . |
| 28 | The pianist was complaining about the sunbeam which was falling across her face so that she could n't see her music . |
| 29 | and er we moved over there because erm the Department was splitting at the seams really , because immediately there was erm , the war was over and there were all sorts of plans for erm for development and that sort of thing and erm as I 've already mentioned there were two , only two graduates in the whole of the Education Department who was Mr and er his Personal Assistant and erm then after the war there were three graduates appointed , all of them from erm , ex service men , there was Arthur who was erm Lieutenant Commander in the Navy , there was erm Bud , I ca n't remember his Christ proper christian name . |
| 30 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |