Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 2 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 3 | The two sides were vying for the third spot behind Wakefield and Orrell in the Northern Division allocation for the national finals to be played at Bath on April 26 . |
| 4 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 5 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 6 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 7 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 8 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 9 | Joseph lead the team towards the children 's section and as they were passing through a second explosion was felt . |
| 10 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 11 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 12 | Ray Hankin , who took temporary charge when the team were heading towards the Fourth Division , was the first applicant . |
| 13 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 14 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 15 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 16 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 17 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 18 | I accept the term " growth " on the basis of the probability that both population and ( though this is harder to demonstrate ) productivity were rising during the ninth century . |
| 19 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 20 | Fakrid 's heavy eyelids were closing for the last time . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 22 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 23 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 24 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 25 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 26 | Michelle , Valerie and June were jumping for the first time , but Kay had two charity parachute jumps under her belt already . |
| 27 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 28 | The wisdom of the Northern Ireland Branch of introducing a Grade 4B a few years ago , is paying off now , when this grade attracted an entry of 21 bands , some of which were playing for the first time . |
| 29 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |
| 30 | Having finished her spot , the soprano left the stage and rejoined her husband and the Concert Secretary who were sitting at the next table . |