Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 2 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 3 | He did confirm that the attack appeared to be linked with similar incidents at Blackpool and Manchester last year and his force was working closely with colleagues in those two areas . |
| 4 | A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi , probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies . |
| 5 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 6 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 7 | Annabel suddenly felt that her mind was spiralling out of control . |
| 8 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 9 | The bus the 30-year-old hooker was travelling in to Manchester airport suffered a puncture and Bishop made the rendezvous with only minutes to spare . |
| 10 | Roger led up and rightwards onto the ice and it was quickly apparent that in places the snow was lying directly over rock , with what ice there was insecurely bonded to the smooth slabs . |
| 11 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 12 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 13 | Susan Stretch was driving home to Chilton Polden with her three girls , and a neighbour and her two children , when the creature sprang against the side of her car . |
| 14 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 15 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 16 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 17 | She felt as if the entire universe were spinning out of control with her soaring , throbbing need … |
| 18 | James Woodforde , ever a reliable source for the minutiae of late 18th-century life , wrote on 25 January 1794 that he could never remember having seen the barometer lower ; a savage and relentless winter was setting in throughout Britain and the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | The sun was glittering remorselessly on rows of white yacht masts at the quayside . |
| 20 | The sun was beating down on rows of glittering white yachts , flashing on aluminium masts and highly polished brass and chrome . |
| 21 | The sun was going down upon Presley City . |
| 22 | There were darker tales too : that Diana was suffering from anorexia nervosa ; that Prince Charles was concerned about her health ; that she was beginning to exert too much influence on his friends and their staff In reality , the Princess was suffering both from bulimia and a severe case of post-natal depression . |
| 23 | Parish Council chairman Peter Foster yesterday said so many people were booking their plots the village was running out of burial space . |
| 24 | A girl I vaguely knew from the village was standing there with tears streaming down her face and apart from the occasional sob from her we stood there in stony silence . |
| 25 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 26 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between cockle pickers on a West Wales beach . |
| 27 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between feuding cocklers on a West Wales beach . |
| 28 | As early as 1976 , the Layfield Committee was distinguishing not between counties and districts , but between ‘ major spending authorities ’ and the rest in their discussions of the possible introduction of a local income tax ( Layfield 1976:196 ) . |
| 29 | A doctor at Brecon Memorial Hospital said the boy was recovering well from exposure . |
| 30 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |