Example sentences of "that was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 2 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 3 | A curricle was in sight , its bowling progress slowing as the driver recognised the dog that was bounding straight into its path . |
| 4 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 5 | He looked around the table , fidgeted for a moment , then spied the single long-stemmed rose in a box that was lying directly in front of him . |
| 6 | She had an interesting rather than beautiful face , with sharp angles and large blue eyes , and a wide mouth that was smiling pleasantly in her direction . |
| 7 | After all , a plant that was doing badly in the Amazon may well do well elsewhere , or at least contain genes that would be useful in other environments . |
| 8 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 9 | She swallowed again and tried to ignore the terrible sharp pain that was twisting viciously into the side of her head . |
| 10 | So crawling along a girder that was swaying gently under the dome of a gigantic space station induced a level of fear that Ace thought she could handle . |
| 11 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |