Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 2 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 3 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 4 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 5 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 6 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 7 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 8 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 9 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 10 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 11 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 12 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 13 | Children were splashing in the beck , their cries echoing from the cove face , a courting couple were doing what courting couples have done since time immemorial , oblivious to the world and its wife passing by , and old ladies on a coach trip from Bradford were walking gently through the sunny afternoon , all grey hair , handbags and giggles . |
| 14 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 15 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |
| 16 | The guests were crowding slowly past the wedded couple , kissing them , shaking their hands . |
| 17 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |
| 18 | Winnipeg was full of racegoing visitors who were contributing handsomely to the local economy . |
| 19 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 20 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 21 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 22 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 23 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 24 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 25 | ‘ We thought all our problems were behind us and were looking forward to a new life . |
| 26 | Young people were looking forward to a modern China in which they would play an active role . |
| 27 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 28 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 29 | By this time , they were looking ahead to the long-term effects on the children of the arbitrary manner in which they had been removed , and the lengthy absence from their homes and families . |
| 30 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |