Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 2 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 3 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 4 | Reports were soon coming in of a man of that description heading towards the Chilterns . |
| 5 | Yet both sides expressed satisfaction that the Israeli-Palestinian talks were finally catching up with the concurrent negotiations between Israel and its other Arab adversaries , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . |
| 6 | But in an interview with police one of the defendants claimed the men were just crouching down by the boards because they were trying to shelter from a strong wind . |
| 7 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 9 | Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands . |
| 10 | And they were just coming round in the summer . |
| 11 | If you can relate back to branches , everybody was just running around , everybody 's had a specific task to do , you were just running round like a , |
| 12 | Fresh greenskins were already forming up for the attack , spear-wielding infantry and archers among them , and towards the rear two huge Trolls shambled slowly through a sea of frolicking Snotlings . |
| 13 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
| 14 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 15 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 16 | Lio ! rt and Liartes were already striding back across the turf to where the servants stood waiting with their mounts . |
| 17 | Lights were already showing back down the road along which they had come , and in the distance there was the sound of shots being fired . |
| 18 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 19 | A better piece of news for the Government yesterday came from Brussels , where there were indications that German and Spanish EC finance ministers were gradually swinging round to the Government 's view that the social chapter would lose jobs rather than protect them . |
| 20 | The barman was by now mellow and helpful and said we were rapidly running out of the ice that had come aboard in bags in Sudbury . |
| 21 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 22 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 23 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
| 24 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 25 | From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard . |
| 26 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 27 | His own companions were still coming out of the entrance burrow one by one and there was a good deal of scrabbling and shuffling . |
| 28 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 29 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 30 | Already as a subaltern , when most of his contemporaries , mindful of where lay the springs of promotion in the Third Republic , were assiduously sucking up to the politicians , Pétain had the audacity to place a reservist Deputy under arrest for some minor military infringement . |