Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 2 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
| 3 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 4 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 5 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 6 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |