Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 3 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 4 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 5 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 6 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 7 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 8 | The papers , covered with crosses and signatures , were passing back to the organizers . |
| 9 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 10 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 11 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 12 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 13 | Bees were moving about on the bluebells . |
| 14 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 15 | Strange couplings and odd noises were rising out of the performances in the dungeon . |
| 16 | All their backs were coming up like the clappers . |
| 17 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 18 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 19 | By 1930 , from 400,000 to 450,000 people were travelling in from the suburbs to work in Paris : 180,000 into the Gares Saint-Lazare , Montparnasse , and des Invalides , 90,000 into the Gare du Nord , 85,000 into the Gares de l'Est and de la Bastille , and 45,00 into the Gares d'Austerlitz , d'Orsay , and de Lyon . |
| 20 | The torch had caught the planks laid across it and the flames were reaching up towards the rafters above . |
| 21 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 22 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 23 | The trend was illustrated by the new cemeteries , which were springing up on the cities ' fringes . |
| 24 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |
| 25 | Clouds were creeping up over the edges of the trees and the river 's surface was turning black . |
| 26 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 27 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 28 | Two placards were leaning up against the walls . |
| 29 | Oh , I did my homework , while you were screaming along with the boys ! |
| 30 | Sticky pools and channels of drink were seeping out through the gaps in the floorboards on to the sand beneath the kiosk . |