Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 2 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 4 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 5 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 6 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 7 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 8 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 9 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 10 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 11 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 12 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 13 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 14 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 15 | I did take out one thing about the bible since it was going to somebody in the States in the bible belt and I did n't |
| 16 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 17 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 18 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 19 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 20 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 21 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 22 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 23 | No doubt he was waiting for her in the foyer , champing at her non-appearance . |
| 24 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 25 | He was waiting for her in the hall . |
| 26 | Tracey was waiting for her in the pub . |
| 27 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 28 | JENNY was waiting for her in the lounge of the Black Lion occupying herself with an evening newspaper . |
| 29 | Guido was waiting for her in the hallway , his face as black as thunder . |
| 30 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |