Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 4 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 5 | At the drink-up after their New York appearance , the band were hanging out with ex-Nymph INGRE LORRE , who invited them all back to her mother 's house for a Halloween party ( surely an offer not to be passed up ) . |
| 6 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 7 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 8 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 9 | Frogs that were lying around like drunk pop stars on lilos , are jettisoned through the air like bomb debris . |
| 10 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 11 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 12 | By 1988 the majority in both these communities were moving back towards greater emphasis on Lebanese identity , albeit hoping for a new constitutional basis , and they increasingly viewed the Palestinian presence as an undesirable one . |
| 13 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 14 | Youngsters falling out was one thing , but just as worrying were reports that some of the more mature boys and girls were getting on with each other just a little too well . |
| 15 | at Max and Jamie 's party they were getting off with each other |
| 16 | Troops were marching through on either side of the road . |
| 17 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 18 | Since the soldiery could only live by looting , the peasantry were rising out of sheer desperation . |
| 19 | We went there , we took it with us , all this load , And what it was it was a forces couple and they were coming back to this country from Germany or somewhere like that , so we had n't seen them . |
| 20 | I also remember being extremely ashamed at some of the racist chants the Leeds fans were coming out with that night . |
| 21 | Their ages ranged from about fourteen to fifty , but the majority were youngsters out at work all day who were losing out on regular schooling . |
| 22 | Downstairs in the lobbies , Tories were running around in equal bewilderment over the Speakership . |
| 23 | Instead of offloading underperforming RISC machines on its customers — thousands of which were crying out for more power — it rushed to boost the power of its obsolete 16-bit processor by every tweak possible , and virtually gave the things away . |
| 24 | On recovery nights , when subjects were allowed to sleep undisturbed , they took more REM sleep than usual , as if they were making up to some extent for the amount lost . |
| 25 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 26 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 27 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 28 | Nastase had sublime skills but was careering around without much discipline and direction … a powderkeg temperament … an adorable , off-the-wall rogue . |
| 29 | Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage . |
| 30 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |