Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age .
2 His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession .
3 Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital .
4 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 .
5 Several members of the left wing Revolutionary Movement , MIR , were hiding out in a residential safe-house .
6 It was growing dusk ; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure .
15 She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal .
16 Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air .
17 Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him
18 A jovial , curly-headed man , Mulverin was squelching around in a muddy yard outside the cowshed , mucking out with a spade .
19 On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding .
20 The camera plane was grinding up in a labouring climb , turning to present the smallest target .
21 ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing .
22 Faced with a whole series of books to write , Swainson had the choice of simply following Cuvier 's system , which was coming out in an English version at the same time , or of doing something new ; and he chose the latter .
23 Patriarchal power in education was coming back in a big way , and was endorsed in the 1986 Education Act 's stipulation that sex education should be taught within a moral framework and with due regard to family life .
24 The rain was coming down in a solid curtain .
25 Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger .
26 His opponent was dancing about in a neutral corner , one eye on his quarry .
27 Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night .
28 She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood .
29 The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover .
30 Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian .
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