Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did so with the help of the School of Tropical Medicine who were experimenting with treatment by triparsaidide from malarial insects . |
| 2 | Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 4 | Some of the big London agencies were circling like bees round honey and a few had actually offered to ‘ buy ’ me from John . |
| 5 | We often simply do not know in what ways people in the past were drawing on ideas about obligations , rights or duties when they provided assistance for their kin ( Medick and Sabean , 1984 , pp. 20–1 ) . |
| 6 | In the words of the Irish ballad , the birds they were singing from tree to tree . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice , rats , chicks and rabbits . |
| 8 | Baba Yaga came in , and her eyes were gleaming like coals of fire . |
| 9 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 10 | Mark , 26 , Cindy Kibble 27 , and Debbie Hunter , 26 , were returning to homes in Devon and Cornwall from Germany when their Toyota Corolla went out of control in sleet on the M4 motorway in Berkshire . |
| 11 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 12 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 13 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 14 | As far as police are able to understand they were walking near Tescos in Bletchley when three men burst out of some shrubbery and assaulted them . |
| 15 | These men were walking from work-house to work-house . |
| 16 | Dave and Alice Fernie were walking like a-couple of children down the private side of Boundary Drive . |
| 17 | The hypothesis was that firms were decentralizing in search of reserves of labour , and probably cheaper labour since wages were likely to be lower in areas with high unemployment ( 1976 , pp. 71 — 4 , 102 ) . |
| 18 | However , the exciting days of last February and March when the Stars were challenging with Chelmsford for promotion have long been forgotten by the home fans . |
| 19 | On the very day his paper went to the General Committee the polytechnic directors were meeting in conference at Coombe Lodge , together with Toby Weaver and others from the DES . |
| 20 | Relationships , similar figures , now we we looked at that , and we looked at scale , erm , and I think last time we were looking at things like though , not too long ago we were looking at price of council paper and this sort of stuff , which one shall we buy ? |
| 21 | You were looking at features like despatcher how you forward how you deliberate drivers and how good and how extra mile and write out printed write out labels for companies . |
| 22 | ‘ Last year we were looking at levels of Government borrowing far lower than those we are looking at today . |
| 23 | We went in and were ushered into the hall where a number of other new children were looking at books of photos of school trips and events . |
| 24 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 25 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 26 | They were living in lodgings at Brighton at the time , so as to be near our school . |
| 27 | The Crawfords were living from week to week , and soon the Rolls-Royce had to go . |
| 28 | The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants . |
| 29 | Another device for achieving the result contended for by Lord Finlay might be agency : that is that the allies ( agents ) were acting on behalf of Poland ( principal ) which would subsequently be entitled to claim the benefits of the treaty . |
| 30 | The De Mazia trust charges that the Barnes trustees were acting on behalf of Lincoln University when they awarded publishing rights to Alfred A. Knopf . |