Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 2 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 3 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 4 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 5 | Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade . |
| 6 | The delivered price was described as being on a par with the official f.o.b. price , in other words , the Iranians were discounting by the entire freight element . |
| 7 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 8 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 9 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 10 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 11 | Last week listeners were complaining about the supposed increase in American accents on Radio 4 ( ‘ I am sick to the back teeth of hearing these American voices ’ ) . |
| 12 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 13 | All over the camp in wild panic the huts were emptying as the remaining occupants scrambled for the safety of the hills and the Russian frontier beyond . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 15 | And here was the waterfront , not of the river , but a grimy offshoot of the Danube Canal , apparently little used , though a couple of moored barges were bumping against the ramshackle wooden pier . |
| 16 | Yet even as North spoke , the contras were collapsing under the very impact of his half-secret operations ; and by the time of his trial , less than two years later , the new administration had turned its back on them . |
| 17 | A number of common guillemots were feeding in the tidal streams which run strongly here . |
| 18 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |
| 19 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 20 | A couple of bare-breasted girls in sarongs were returning from the communal laundry , the washing balanced on their heads , their breasts moving gently as they sauntered by , giggling at some private joke . |
| 21 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 22 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 23 | But he certainly was n't the man to have in the driving seat on the union side when both management and workers were striving for the sheer survival of the company , and needed to work together if they were to pull through . |
| 24 | Over 500 of the company 's workers were protesting at the possible closure of the British-controlled company , following reports that its main creditor bank had threatened to withdraw funding . |
| 25 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 26 | They skirted an indoor pool , empty as yet , though a few early arrivals were sitting in the comfortable chairs , enjoying afternoon tea . |
| 27 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 28 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 29 | In 1975 , the CDC recommended deep landfills , but local officials were working under the mistaken assumption that dioxin 's half-life — its staying power in the environment — was only one year . |
| 30 | As they rode out of the low narrow gate , their knees banging , their heads ducked , the other monks were mustering for the Holy Office of Vespers . |