Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Liberals like Sir Richard Acland were becoming identified with the Campaign , the Communists remained hostile to Lloyd George and his Five Point Group . |
| 2 | At the lower levels of the movement , however , many were becoming attracted to the prospect of ending the feuds of recent years . |
| 3 | " We 'd easily get the half-five bus , " Timothy said , offering his gums again , blocking their passage and the passage of two elderly women who were endeavouring to pass into the foyer . |
| 4 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 5 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 6 | The Chelsea keeper produced three top-class stops before half-time as Boro threatened to break open the defensive grip Chelsea were looking to keep on the game . |
| 7 | The , th th th the o the other thing that is I think , I think there is something in this , is that there was , at least within some sections of the peasantry , erm er a , a kind of erm revolutionary zeal which they were building themselves and they were wanting to go beyond the Party . |
| 8 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 9 | And indeed the frayed scrappy edges he had cut off from his trousers were lying strewn on the floor , in the middle of the room for everyone to see ! |
| 10 | that consultation , they were waiting to meet with the county er |
| 11 | They sort of could n't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year . |
| 12 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 13 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 14 | Erm the point that both the others raised about my objection with the large document and my objection regarding what you were going to do with the information you could have apacked and come out with a stronger result . |
| 15 | ( They showed me how deep they had advanced into Russia and I showed them what we were going to do in the West . |
| 16 | She had n't realised that they were going to breakfast in the suite or even that she would share breakfast with him . |
| 17 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 18 | Was there at some time then , a briefing for the officers who were going to go into the flat ? |
| 19 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 20 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 21 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 22 | You were going to help with the woman . |
| 23 | When he knew they were going to surrender in the morning , he slipped away from his unit . |
| 24 | What makes it even more sweet is the fact that they crapped on about us only getting to the 2nd round last year and how they were going to get to the final . |
| 25 | Then she would n't be sitting here wondering how on earth they were going to get through the night . |
| 26 | People began to wonder how they were going to get through the evening . |
| 27 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 28 | Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns . |
| 29 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 30 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |