Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 2 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 3 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 4 | ‘ We thought all our problems were behind us and were looking forward to a new life . |
| 5 | Young people were looking forward to a modern China in which they would play an active role . |
| 6 | The accused and that person were acting together in a dishonest enterprise . |
| 7 | And now it was as if I were sinking blissfully into a warm bath and lying there perfectly relaxed … |
| 8 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 9 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 10 | Two horsemen were riding past in a leisurely manner , skirting the forest . |
| 11 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 12 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 13 | The other dead men are David Russell , 22 , of Lochgelly , and Graham Spence , 39 , of Crosshill , who were travelling together in a white transit . |
| 14 | Then , while the pirates and Famlio were staring piercingly at a new contingent of roisterers coming in , I decided to move . |
| 15 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 16 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 17 | On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices . |
| 18 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 19 | But er this hundred and twenty pound radio was knocking away for a five quid in the end er I er I heard . |
| 20 | ‘ There he was a-sitting there like a scaly old bull . ’ |
| 21 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 22 | Everything was happening now with a distant , dreamlike certainty . |
| 23 | Once she was driving home from a riotous party in the French countryside in order to allow Bernard to sleep on the back seat . |
| 24 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
| 25 | After several weeks of sleeping bags and ‘ pretty awful food ’ , Ms Stephens , who lost a stone and half during the expedition , was looking forward to a hearty meal and a good night 's sleep in a proper bed . |
| 26 | One of Jonathan 's neighbours in Hornsey , north London , said last night : ‘ He was looking forward to a big Christmas . |
| 27 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 28 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 29 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
| 30 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |