Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 32 | They 'd just sunk that pit and they were starting to turn coal and the the the miners were straggling back to the new pit you see ? |
| 33 | It was growing dusk ; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them . |
| 34 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 35 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 36 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 37 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 38 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 39 | Conceivably such gains were tailing off by the late sixties . |
| 40 | A group of women prisoners were leaning out of the second-floor window , watching the visitors approach the building . |
| 41 | The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head . |
| 42 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 43 | We wo n't know till tomorrow what sort of dog 's breakfast they 'll dish up out of it , but they were waffling on about the poor little guinea-pig baby . |
| 44 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 45 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |
| 46 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 47 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 48 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 49 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 50 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 51 | The authors reported that as this project progressed interest in the teaching of study skills increased and this interest was filtering through into the primary schools sector . |
| 52 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 53 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 54 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 55 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 56 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 57 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 58 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 59 | But Tsu Ma had turned already and was wading out into the deeper water . |
| 60 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |