Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
| 3 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 4 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 5 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 6 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 7 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 8 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 9 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 10 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 11 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 12 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 13 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 14 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 15 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 16 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 17 | His feet were resting comfortably on the ship 's control panel . |
| 18 | Their hands were resting lightly on the wizard 's shoulders . |
| 19 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 21 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 22 | Pink bolts were rattling randomly about the area . |
| 23 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 24 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 25 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 26 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 27 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 28 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 29 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 30 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |