Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 2 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 3 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 4 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 5 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 6 | On Thursday we were taken out to see a revolutionary opera , and it was quite an experience , especially as we were sitting in the 2nd row of the stalls , within ear-splitting distance of the gongs and drums which play a large part in the orchestral accompaniment . |
| 7 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 8 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 9 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 10 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 11 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 12 | Pte Farr , whose family came from London , was serving in the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment . |
| 13 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 14 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 15 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 16 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 17 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 18 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 19 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 20 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |