Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stella was coughing when the flash bulb went off . |
| 2 | Where before , half the amusement of seeing the New FADS play was seeing whether the five unlikely groovers could carry off their groove thing without sounding like A Certain Ratio after one too many spliffs , now there is a confidence , and with it comes a hint of threat . |
| 3 | With the raft being swept away by the tide she could n't climb back on board and was struggling when the lifeboat crew reached her . |
| 4 | The autumn afternoon was paling and the ivy that covered the façade of number 63 dripped with yellows and browns . |
| 5 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 6 | The newspaper was demanding that the public be given a good show for their money : ‘ It is still necessary to ask ourselves whether we are getting value for money . |
| 7 | Does he think that his right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary was hinting that the Government might choose to extend VAT ? |
| 8 | In other words , counsel was submitting that the language used by Nolan J. bore the meaning which I have earlier indicated I think it was intended to bear . |
| 9 | That was accepting that the scheme , to which I did not think that reference had been made , might have been applied . |
| 10 | One was typing and the other was operating the switchboard . |
| 11 | ( To suggest otherwise is to imply that Bukharin was suggesting that a proletarian state would regress back beyond state capitalism . ) |
| 12 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 13 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 14 | But , whatever happened to the Germans , McCreery was suggesting that the 200,000 Croats at least should be sent back to Tito . |
| 15 | The lady , who founded the carers ' help line , er , in the literature that you provided for the programme was suggesting that the government should recognise that there are six million unpaid carers . |
| 16 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 17 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
| 18 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 19 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 20 | By April 1984 international pressure on Britain was building and the Commission obliged government by supplying further arguments for inaction while taking part in ‘ more research ’ . |
| 21 | Everyone was cheering and the nerves disappeared 'cause it was so much fun . |
| 22 | Everyone was cheering and the nerves disappeared 'cause it was so much fun . |
| 23 | He found , for example , that one company was realising that the whaling situation had been allowed to become a terrible indictment of all those involved in the industry , the Governments concerned and the International Whaling Commission , but I am afraid to say that it was the attitudes of the other two companies that prevailed in Japan for the ensuing years . |
| 24 | Negotiations on the establishment of a customs union were ahead of schedule , and the Commission was forecasting that the union could come into effect by 1967 , three years earlier than originally planned . |
| 25 | Abul Ismail said , ‘ She was starving before the beams fell on her body . |
| 26 | But those were the first and last meteorites found until the six week season was ending and the party was preparing to leave Antarctica . |
| 27 | Late in January , 1982 , as the season was ending and the weather deteriorating , a member of the American team accompanied a visiting geologist on a long snowmobile traverse to examine the regional configuration of the ice sheet . |
| 28 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |
| 30 | Harris ( 1972–73 ) reported that territorial breakdown among the islands ' iguanas ( Conolophus subcristatus ) was occurring because the animals were deserting their territories to assemble in visitor-frequented areas to be fed . |