Example sentences of "was setting [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains .
2 The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard .
3 The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood .
4 The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour .
5 The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars .
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