Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 2 | People were turning their cars in the driveway to leave the party and caught us in their headlights . |
| 3 | Some half-dozen of the girls were having their elevenses in the sunshine in between lessons , and drinking their coffee with a great deal of laughter and chattering . |
| 4 | Singing was intended to enhance the bond between us , for by reciting verses and lines about the Legion , past and present , we were reinforcing our beliefs in the traditions we stood for . |
| 5 | Afterwards I met two of these gentlemen who were exercising their elbows in a nearby hostelry and exercising their right to disagree on conscientious grounds with the Wesleyan distaste for alcoholic beverages . |
| 6 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 7 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 8 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 9 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 10 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 11 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 12 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |
| 13 | With the knowledge , half admitted , that she was treating her friends in a pretty shitty way , and did n't deserve to have them , Cassie resolved to phone Stephanie on her return and arrange a meeting . |
| 14 | She was doing her teeth in the bathroom . |
| 15 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 16 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 17 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 18 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 19 | His public voice was richer in its Southern tones than normal and he was delivering his words in the slow , measured cadences that he normally employed on the floor of the Senate . |
| 20 | Off-duty police constable David Crowe was visiting his parents in the town 's Coalhall Avenue in October last year when fire broke out in the house next door . |
| 21 | Thus aiding his education because Stella was stretching her powers in the classics : Hedda Gabler , Lady Macbeth , St Joan . |