Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 2 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 3 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 5 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 6 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 7 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 8 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |
| 9 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 10 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 11 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 12 | Obviously Duncan was calling in a few debts . |
| 13 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 14 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 15 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |