Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 2 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 3 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 4 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 5 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 6 | Retailers were pinning their hopes on a strong Christmas after recent figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed that the seasonally-adjusted volume of retail sales fell by 0.1% in November , reversing three continuous months of growth . |
| 7 | Ministers were pinning their hopes on a change of wording in ETA 's latest statement . |
| 8 | It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism . |
| 9 | The woman was wiping her eyes on a screwed-up tissue . |
| 10 | According to the report , a commission in charge of the negotiations with political parties , chaired by Finance Minister Enoch Ruhigira , was focusing its discussions on the distribution of Cabinet posts , including that of prime minister , between political parties . |
| 11 | He was toasting his feet on the coal fired Aga |
| 12 | ‘ He was leaning his elbows on the table . ’ |
| 13 | He said that his department was concentrating its activities on the investigation in hand , for the time being . |
| 14 | Even now , with Nicaea descending into a maelstrom of violence and recrimination , the head of the Justice Police was concentrating his energies on a series of grizzly murders . |
| 15 | When he was arranging my supper-things on the table , I had an irresistible desire to giggle . |