Example sentences of "[n mass] were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ships they could see on the right side of the aircraft were returning from a rehearsal for the service of remembrance that was held on the ocean every year . |
| 2 | More Nassauer infantry were running down the road , their heavy boots stirring a thick dust . |
| 3 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 4 | According to António Arragão ( in Subsídios para a História da Cidade do Funchal , 1979 ) , before 1425 a small group of people were living in the area of Santa Maria do Calhau , mainly in single-storey straw-roofed buildings . |
| 5 | Glumdalclitch was crying , and hundreds of people were watching from the garden . |
| 6 | People were stopping outside the office where it took place and whispering to each other — someone had even placed a bouquet of flowers at the door that morning . |
| 7 | More people were drifting into the club , all of whom asked Erika how her interview had gone . |
| 8 | Three people were picnicking by the pond : a young man , a woman and a little girl . |
| 9 | Back in '88 people were complaining about the Vixen and Psycho Pigs UXB adverts . |
| 10 | All the seats were filled and a number of people were standing by the door . |
| 11 | People came running with lanterns and torches , and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house . |
| 12 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 13 | When the group of people were sewing by the fountain they nodded to her and she nodded back . |
| 14 | One time we were on some stunt on the airfield and the people were encroaching on the ground and we were told to push them back . |
| 15 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 16 | people were floundering in the water . |
| 17 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 18 | What was new was the diversity which people were finding by the end of the century : many of the greatest preachers remained ‘ orthodox ’ including Spurgeon and his many protégés or Wesleyans like Dinsdale T. Young and F. Luke Wiseman . |
| 19 | But UNHCR officials in Sarajevo denied a statement by Ms Foa that people were running after the agency 's trucks in the city and begging . |
| 20 | It was a sign of the dawning self-consciousness of the age that more and more people were turning to the vernacular to express their deepest thoughts and feelings . |
| 21 | Sarajevo radio said Mr Izetbegovic had sent such an appeal , telling Mr Clinton that a ‘ massive ’ number of people were dying in the east . |
| 22 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 23 | Shoals of people were coming up the drive from the west gate — Cameron recognized faces that he knew from the sawmill at Kenmore . |
| 24 | People were coming from every doorway into the street . ’ |
| 25 | People were coming from the museum , some looking with open curiosity at Rain and Oliver . |
| 26 | People were coming from the village in groups of two and three , a stealthy procession . |
| 27 | All of its people were waiting on a glebe meadow outside their cramped little town . |
| 28 | Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office . |
| 29 | Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office . |
| 30 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |