Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 2 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 3 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 4 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 5 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 6 | A little white cutter with red sails was coming in towards the moored boats . |
| 7 | Across the street one of his neighbours was leaning out of a bedroom window , calling for her cat . |
| 8 | At first he treated Lennie as a joke , ordering him around ; as he says , ‘ … a bunch of guys was standing around on the Sacramento River . |
| 9 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |