Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the edge of the plain the outriders that Burun had planted were galloping back to join the main body . |
| 2 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 3 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 4 | Sharpe prayed that the French would go on waiting , and that the British troops who were marching desperately to reinforce the outnumbered defenders at Quatre Bras reached the crossroads in time . |
| 5 | In sharp contrast to her mood , the rain had gone and the clouds were breaking up to reveal a blue sky . |
| 6 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 7 | Also it was particularly strong in the latter years of the war , particularly in the last 18 months , when many , many first and second tour people were coming back to do a further tour , I have wept many a tear for some first class fellows that pestered me , pestered me beyond belief , writing to me every week . |
| 8 | She barely mouthed the word , but already , as if she was possessed by something beyond her control , her hands were reaching up to touch the black curl of his hair , agonisingly shy as she felt the clean , silky texture beneath her fingers . |
| 9 | De Gaulle knew that collaborators around the Vichy prime minister Pierre Laval were trying desperately to resuscitate the Third Republic as a way of saving their own skins and forestalling a Gaullist takeover . |
| 10 | Patristic Christology is subtle , for the fathers were trying rightly to express a complex issue . |
| 11 | Soon after I left them , they were working overtime to fulfil a big order , when there was a breakdown . |
| 12 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 13 | ‘ I was going home to get a new hearing-aid . |
| 14 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 15 | I was holding off buying an away shirt , as I did n't want to wear a shirt that had never won a game . |
| 16 | Michael Stein was trying unsuccessfully to calm an irate customer who was arguing about his bill . |
| 17 | ‘ But if they 're given money for the food … ’ the Substitute was trying vainly to put a bouncing lighter to his cigar . |
| 18 | Benedicta was trying hard to keep a straight face . |
| 19 | I was trying hard to absorb the bizarre happenings of the day . |
| 20 | He was working hard to complete a special project for Friday , and had already told her he would give her a hand at the weekend . |
| 21 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |