Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the peak year of 1913 , these stations between them were receiving 5,791,700 tonnes of goods . |
| 2 | Nine further specimens , including two colonoscopic biopsy specimens , were obtained from patients with ulcerative colitis , all of whom were receiving steroid treatment . |
| 3 | Children 's homes , therefore , were left to care for an older group of children , many of whom were experiencing severe problems and anxieties about their future , and showing serious emotional and behavioural symptoms . |
| 4 | Amnesty said that it had evidence of children being detained , either on suspicion of illegal political activities , or with their fathers , some of whom were serving heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup of 1981 [ see pp. 31353-54 ; 31563 ] . |
| 5 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 6 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 7 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 8 | However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded . |
| 9 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 10 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 11 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 12 | Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible . |
| 13 | All of us were checking new bands out the whole time . |
| 14 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 15 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 16 | After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink . |
| 17 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 18 | Breakfast was served in a long , low-ceilinged room , with a deep fireplace , on which were roasting several animals which Snodgrass said , in an awed whisper to Fenella , were oxen . |
| 19 | And so Mr. Green , I think it was Chris Green , had to he was chairing that meeting and had a double vote . |
| 20 | We 'd sit around chatting for a bit then go on to whatever was happening that evening . |