Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 10 | In addition to this , all members of the permanent staff were comfortably installed and were certain of receiving Red Cross food supplies , while the others were passing through to the unknown . |
| 11 | Most were turning back to the western shore , to life but certain capture . |
| 12 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 13 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 14 | The travellers were heading out into the empty desert . |
| 15 | The fish they were pulling out of the Swedish lakes were badly deformed . |
| 16 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 17 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 18 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 19 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 20 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 21 | Great flat-topped sheets of cloud were moving out of the frigid lands , intermittently obscuring the moon . |
| 22 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 23 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 24 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 25 | And then it was over , and they were coming out into the grey , windy day , the mothers trying not to look at the white-capped sea beyond the point , the boys suddenly gruff and silent now that the moment of parting was come . |
| 26 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 27 | Patients were flocking in for the new treatment . |
| 28 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 29 | A score of Necromundans from various hives were staring out through the traceried ports ; and by now Lexandro could talk to any of them , whatever their original hive and their hab-level lingo . |
| 30 | Immediately in front of him , Bigwig and Dandelion were staring out from the sheer edge of a high bank , and below the bank ran a stream . |