Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Manor ground fans were queuing throughout the day for their big-match tickets . |
| 2 | I realised slowly that the screams were coming from the kitchen . |
| 3 | She looked up to see that Belle had n't made it : her legs were dangling into the corridor . |
| 4 | His tanned , muscled legs were dangling in the water and Ruth steadied herself by grasping them . |
| 5 | His trouser legs were scorching from the fire and he twisted to one side . |
| 6 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 7 | Revolutionary Iran responded with the familiar accusation that the superpowers were uniting at the expense of Iran to secure their own interests . |
| 8 | Koranic schools were functioning in a lot of the villages and even in the refuge camps , for the children to attend . |
| 9 | By introducing controversial issues in the school , like Northern Ireland , race relations , aid to underdeveloped countries and nuclear weapons , schools were engaging in a politicisation of the curriculum which verged on , often slipped over into , quite unacceptable indoctrination . |
| 10 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 11 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 12 | In Yugoslavia itself , Tito 's 3rd and 4th Armies and associated partisan units were advancing from the south and east through Slovenia , the north-western province of Yugoslavia ( bordering Italy and Austria ) , in pursuit of the retreating German forces and of Yugoslav anti-communist formations and groups retreating with them . |
| 13 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , in a study by Abel-Smith and Townsend ( 1965 ) , a third of the poor were the aged , and almost half the old-age pensioners in their study were living below the poverty line . |
| 15 | Her red high heels were clicking on the pavement . |
| 16 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 17 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 18 | And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up and he himself was in the stern asleep on the cushion . |
| 19 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 20 | But Peterson contends : ‘ By the early thirties , gentle waves were washing against the hull of organized baseball ’ ( 1970 , p. 175 ) . |
| 21 | It was high tide ; the wild , white-crested waves were dashing against the parade , sending clouds of spray into the street . |
| 22 | His knees his knees were dissolving in the ebb of the Channel |
| 23 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 24 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 25 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 26 | The British forces invaded the Falklands with the loss of two frigates and uneasy doubts were surfacing about the fireproofing of naval ships . |
| 27 | Prospective owners were required to put down an initial deposit of £50,000 , which seemed fair enough when they had received 1,400 applications and at a time when the prices of exclusive cars were rising to the stratosphere . |
| 28 | Two cars were moving towards the house , both with their lights turned off . |
| 29 | The radios and transmitter of one firm were seized after it was discovered its cars were operating without a Department of Transport licence , and officers uncovered a total of 56 traffic offences . |
| 30 | I forgot the cars were coming down the road . |