Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ripple of new arrivals was making the front row press forwards . |
| 2 | We were over the lagoon now , racing towards the northern strands of the Devil 's Necklace , but low enough so that the wash of our twin propellers was whipping the blue water into a wake of white-hazed foam . |
| 3 | But more than a change of personalities was complicating the American assessment of the relationship with the British at this time . |
| 4 | One of the old men was reading the Daily Minor , the knitter was knitting , Helena Naulls was asleep , her mouth open and her dentures slipped out of alignment . |
| 5 | His chief officers formed a board which had a very considerable measure of authority to determine its own ways ( witness , for example , the Western Region 's adventure with diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the remainder of British Railways was following the diesel-electric path , or the Eastern Region 's policy of civil engineering for speed ) . |