Example sentences of "man was [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serious incidents had occurred in recent years and one man was serving a prison sentence after his conviction in 1991 for manslaughter , the report said . |
| 2 | At the same time , another young man was managing the estates of one of Hungary 's other great landowners , the Countess Andrássy . |
| 3 | The man was brushing the London dust from his dark-suited legs , and she could n't see his face . |
| 4 | Ramakrishna tells a story of a devotee who was in tears while a holy man was expounding the Gita . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you both , ’ Beth told them , at the same time stepping between the men and Cissie ; she did not like the way the younger man was regarding the girl . |
| 6 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |
| 7 | Back at Reckweilerhof in time for dinner , an old man was leaving the restaurant with a couple who were probably his son and daughter-in-law . |
| 8 | Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary . |
| 9 | One woman was knitting , an old man was reading the Daily Minor . |
| 10 | To my dismay , the residents ' lounge was full of people and one man was addressing the company , whether they liked it or not , with an account of his mountaineering adventures . |
| 11 | He opened the door , took off his cap and threw it into the stall : ‘ If that 's welcome , ’ he said , ‘ so am I. ’ In a short time the horse came to the door : they put the bridle on him and shortly afterwards the Norfolk man was taking the horse to the smithy to be shod . |
| 12 | The man was tapping the barrel of a syringe . |
| 13 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 14 | Suddenly Lok understood that the man was holding the stick out to him but neither he nor Lok could reach across the river . |
| 15 | A man was buying a two-year sub-lease on some business premises . |
| 16 | The man was wearing a white coat and spectacles without any glass in them . |
| 17 | One large young man was wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend , ‘ We want ink in our Pen ’ . |
| 18 | The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket . |
| 19 | The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket . |
| 20 | The old man was wearing a plastic raincoat but was hatless . |
| 21 | The lower half of the Harvesters ' Vase priest is broken off , so we have no way of knowing how his lower half was clothed , but the seal impression shows that underneath the pleated skirt the man was wearing the sacral hide garment . |
| 22 | One man was wearing an old soldier 's cape . |
| 23 | The constable did investigate the incident and proudly told colleagues later how his discretion and instinct had proved correct : the man was telling the truth . |
| 24 | A third man was pushing a trolley , collecting dirty laundry . |
| 25 | A young man was pushing the empty wheelbarrow — and not very successfully . |
| 26 | The old man was using a blowtorch on the garden gate . |
| 27 | On the roof a man was polishing the inside of a large microwave dish . |
| 28 | They copied the form and ways of Man , but saw how Man was clearing the forest and saw how this destruction released elemental spirits from the earth which had once been frozen . |
| 29 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
| 30 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |