Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 2 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 3 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 4 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 5 | They are not speaking to each other , following a disagreement on the eighth night over whether or not Chris was going to have a third bottle of wine with dinner . |
| 6 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 7 | Its driver believes the coach was swerving to avoid a third vehicle . |
| 8 | Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book . |
| 9 | Well as usual we could n't remember the last time you came , I was trying to think the last time |
| 10 | At last just as she was contemplating getting the next bus home he arrived . |
| 11 | She was planning to go the next day . |
| 12 | His father , who works in Oman , was planning to catch the first flight home . |