Example sentences of "[was/were] putting the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 2 | He walked back around the side of the cottage to the open kitchen window , where the two girls were putting the packed food into a basket . |
| 3 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 4 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 5 | Six weeks ago , some polls were putting the green alliance of the Verts and Generation Ecologie actually ahead of the Socialists with nearly 20 per cent of the votes . |
| 6 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 7 | Another canard launched by the press last month was that the Queen was putting the Royal Collection of works of art in a trust to avoid tax . |
| 8 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 9 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 10 | Lindsey was putting the finishing touches to her notes when someone tapped at the door and a dark-haired girl popped her head round . |