Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 2 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 3 | Other Companies of the Battalion were already moving off in time to take their appropriate places in the March Table . |
| 4 | RUNCORN fans were tonight sitting down with club officials at Canal Street in what chairman Dave Robinson described as a ‘ clear the air meeting . ’ |
| 5 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 6 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 7 | The Conservatives were also putting forward of course prudent growth in important areas and one of the areas that I would particularly like to mention is that of nursery education . |
| 8 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the general point stands that Behaviouralists , for all their dramatic talk of a ‘ Behavioural Revolution ’ , were really arguing only about method within a basic theoretical approach shared with Realism . |
| 10 | The Czechs were even stocking up with beer for the mess back home . |
| 11 | By the time the complex details of the preventative works had been finally drawn up and agreed we were again running out of time . |
| 12 | I could only suppose that the collapse of space-time in my own day was slowly spreading outwards from source , like a bloodstain oozing across an old sheet , threatening many deep-seated continuities . |
| 13 | So anyway that was one of the reasons , when I found that Brothers was slowly going out of business , when I saw last in , and I asked him if er I could have this thing ? |
| 14 | It was all getting out of hand . |
| 15 | And er , er , an an and as I say I had , like , this was only coming home from school like , you know . |
| 16 | When the spirit flags , the body follows , and Jack Stone was literally draining away with despair and fear . |
| 17 | Hoarding was frowned on , but tinned beans and peas , sugar , flour , anything that could be stored , was soon piling up on top of wardrobes and in garden sheds . |
| 18 | We might add that , though property from land or , more commonly , from urban real-estate , remained an important source of bourgeois income , especially among the middle and lower bourgeoisie in areas of lagging industrialisation , it was already diminishing somewhat in importance . |
| 19 | The Crown relied very much upon borrowing and was already sliding deep into debt . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
| 21 | I was just wondering how on earth your supposed to get to the M one heading towards er Bramford I mean |
| 22 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 23 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 24 | She was just coming out of Credit Agricole , having cashed some traveller 's cheques , when she saw Antoinette emerging from the pharmacie opposite . |
| 25 | María , the young woman who kept the bar , was just coming back from church , her head still covered by a black lace mantilla . |
| 26 | The English position in Aquitaine remained insecure , however , and the government in Bordeaux was rapidly running out of money . |
| 27 | A friend of mine , Debbie , was once driving late at night through an unfamiliar area of London . |
| 28 | What's-His-Name , English lecturer , second year , that course on the Nineteenth Century Novel … remember how he was always wittering on about Incest in Wuthering Heights ? ’ |
| 29 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |
| 30 | The former was dry , but the latter was gradually catching up with kitchen . |