Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nightfall the whole city was burning and the few survivors were fleeing southwards towards Altdorf . |
| 2 | Small boys in grey shirts and pants and red ties were wandering around in groups . |
| 3 | Grade decided that the complaints from parents and teachers that kids were arriving late in class because of the series — not to mention that nagging suspicion that placing Neighbours on before the evening 's news bulletin could be a ratings coup — should be ignored no longer . |
| 4 | the bark of the oaks was not brown but pale gold ; how primroses were nestling safely amongst tussocks of bristly dry grass . |
| 5 | The year was 1956 and teenagers were hatching out into fashion peacocks , no longer content to follow blindly in the footsteps of their sober-suited parents . |
| 6 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 7 | Her eyes were looking out to sea . |
| 8 | The goals were going in for Jan Aage in pre season friendlies … |
| 9 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | Carl and his brothers were playing up around Jackson , Tennessee , and we called it honky-tonk music . |
| 11 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 12 | The parents were scurrying about like ants . |
| 13 | Their parents were going out to drinks , there was no problem . |
| 14 | But it was still a surprise to receive a letter from Mr Major 's office just when we thought thatchers were going out of fashion . |
| 15 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 16 | We knew the rents were going up in Tottenham mews and we could n't find any good , affordable space in town . |
| 17 | And although the Marian exiles were hurrying back to England , there was no evidence that she was in sympathy with their Calvinist brand of Protestantism . |
| 18 | By the nineteen fifties Kirkwall had a new power station at the P D C and already the distribution lines were radiating out from Kirkwall to bring mains electricity to the outlying areas of the mainland . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you any notion who might have killed him , Inspector ? ’ said the Bishop , clearly feeling that , if matters were getting down to fundamentals , it was time he played a part . |
| 20 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 21 | By the mid-Fifties more than half the girls at American universities were dropping out of college in order to marry and help their husbands to get through . |
| 22 | I remember , vividly , the winter of discontent when the trains were never running and hospital workers were dealing only with emergencies , and mountains of rubbish were subsiding into the streets . |
| 23 | He noticed that the veins were standing out on Michael 's forehead and against his will felt a surge of apprehension . |
| 24 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 25 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
| 26 | Some educational psychologists were turning away from psychometry . |
| 27 | During 1983–84 concern began to grow among both agencies and advertisers that production costs were getting out of hand . |
| 28 | One young girl , who had Asian friends and kept saying ‘ I 'm not being colour prejudiced , you know ’ , complained that things were slipping out of control : ‘ I mean , we 're leaving school soon , and half the jobs have gone . |
| 29 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 30 | It might also assist in work share and offset because perhaps if things were getting out of balance on Eurofighter you could actually use the tornado pruject , project and get a greater balance . |