Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 2 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 3 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 4 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 5 | As the sun set , pools of darkness were growing in the innumerable dips and hollows . |
| 6 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 7 | A number of common guillemots were feeding in the tidal streams which run strongly here . |
| 8 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 9 | At Church Bridge people were paddling in the still pools beside the running water and throwing sticks out into the mainstream which reluctant dogs stared at and barked as though to say , " I may be daft but I 'm not daft enough to go splashing through that lot . " |
| 10 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 11 | They skirted an indoor pool , empty as yet , though a few early arrivals were sitting in the comfortable chairs , enjoying afternoon tea . |
| 12 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 13 | Huge log fires were burning in the open fireplaces in both the Long Hall , and the Big Drawing Room . |
| 14 | THERE was always something odd , not to say distasteful , about the triumphant claims in 1989 that what was happening in the awakening democracies of the former eastern bloc was the end of history . |
| 15 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 16 | The Fiction adds a little to one 's understanding of what he was becoming in the eighteen months immediately before his courtship of Helen Noble . |
| 17 | Gran nudged her : something was bobbing in the black swells , shrugged further ashore with every wave . |
| 18 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 19 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 21 | The policeman and a colleague stopped the van ‘ for no other reason than it was moving in the early hours of the morning , ’ a detective at the scene said . |
| 22 | Sheriff Robin McEwan , QC , was speaking in the closing stages of a three-day fatal accident inquiry at Ayr Sheriff Court . |
| 23 | SHARES soared by more than £3 billion to another all-time high yesterday as the Bank of England indicated that spending was rising in the High Streets . |
| 24 | Obviously Duncan was calling in a few debts . |
| 25 | ‘ We created things like the farmhouse salad carts , using fresh produce , while everybody else was buying in the frozen varieties . |
| 26 | The noise was deafening in the small confines of the workshop . |
| 27 | Then , running her eyes along the row of plane trees , she suddenly noticed , for the first time , that a medium-sized dragon was sitting in the upper branches of a particularly fine plane tree and munching a green leaf . |
| 28 | He was sitting in the stern sheets with the money belt in his hands . |
| 29 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 30 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |