Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was killing two birds with one stone , she thought cheerfully : she really did feel sorry for Veronica , and keeping in touch was the only way she 'd find out more about the woman 's relationship with her husband . |
| 2 | I subsequently established from Mr. Docherty 's mother that the other factor preventing him from living at home was the fact that his presence would have had an impact on the family 's eligibility for housing benefit and would have resulted in additional poll tax liability which the family simply could not meet . |
| 3 | Cattle stealing for ransom was the most common form in many districts . |
| 4 | Getting onto Switchboard was the easy part . |
| 5 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 6 | But hurtling towards Winter was the most difficult part of the track , where the course divides into three , and the approach to this junction was not railed . |
| 7 | Observers of inner-city youth noted that along with smoking and clothes , talking about sport was the main amusement of lads on the street-corner . |
| 8 | The only thing still standing in town was the gallows . |
| 9 | We saw that the chief consequence of the change from foraging to hunting was the restitution of the primal father in the totem-animal which was worshipped , and also in the totemic taboos in which his moral authority lived on . |