Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 2 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 3 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 4 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 5 | Sticky pools and channels of drink were seeping out through the gaps in the floorboards on to the sand beneath the kiosk . |
| 6 | The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head . |
| 7 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 8 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 9 | Columns of smoke were drifting up into the sky . |
| 10 | Thick fingers of the viscous substance were reaching up from the surface towards her starsuit 's hips . |
| 11 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 12 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 13 | Great flat-topped sheets of cloud were moving out of the frigid lands , intermittently obscuring the moon . |
| 14 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |