Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants . |
| 7 | We were going to Aberystwyth in Wales ; too far away for me , I wanted the north . |
| 8 | Then we were going to Newquay in Cornwall ; worse still . |
| 9 | In departing from the tenets of classical execution , they were moving towards contingency in form . |
| 10 | A group of travellers were staying on land in Appleton in Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | Neighbouring princes were marching into Aquitaine in order to play their part in what was rapidly developing into a showdown on the scale of 1173–4 . |
| 12 | Of course gold prospecting in Ireland started much earlier than this — in 1957 Anglo-United were prospecting for gold in Clentibret , Co . |
| 13 | Edward laughed politely , slid from Carnaby 's grip and edged towards the group by the window , who were talking about hedges in tones of some desperation . |
| 14 | They were talking about Buddhism in Chislehurst , against a background of mind-expansion , freedom and festivals . |
| 15 | The ladies had gone , and Madeleine and Louis were sitting with Antoinette in silence . |
| 16 | It all came to a head in what proved to be Lineker 's final game , when as England were trailing against Sweden in Stockholm , Taylor pulled him off . |
| 17 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 18 | Calan was recovering at home in Brisbane , Australia , yesterday . |
| 19 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 20 | A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was recovering in hospital in Cheltenham yesterday after biting his pet dog , which was attacking one of his friends . |
| 21 | Elisabeth stretched out full length on the couch and listened as Gerhardt related , ecstatically , how her love was unfolding like buds in May . |
| 22 | She was gazing at Pike in bewilderment . |
| 23 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 24 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 25 | Woodcock , who was living at home in Birmingham and studying medicine , enjoyed his visits to his ‘ wicked ’ uncle in London . |
| 26 | By that time , Uncle Tommy was living at Sleetburn in Baldersdale with his parents , my Grandfather James and Grandma Elizabeth Hauxwell , and his new wife did n't want to leave Dummah Hill . |
| 27 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 28 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 29 | Certainly Pound was writing from Taormina in December 1924 , and writing to Joyce from Syracuse on 21 January 1925 ( Pound/Joyce ed . |
| 30 | He was serving in France in December 1436 under John Talbot , first Earl of Shrewsbury [ q.v. ] , at Gisors , and was by then a knight . |