Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 2 | It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire . |
| 3 | London and other cities were slowly dying underneath the Blitz , and intelligence on U-boat building ( top secret ) was terrifying to those who knew . |
| 4 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 5 | They were constantly issuing from the lips of ministers . |
| 6 | He was lying on a bed , placed between two open windows , his head being without any cap or covering of any sort , while his grey locks were literally floating in the wind , for , although in July , it was cold and blowing weather . |
| 7 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 8 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 9 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 10 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 11 | He could n't understand why they were suddenly running over the sand . |
| 12 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 13 | Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people . |
| 14 | These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come . |
| 15 | WE WERE just getting over the shock of seeing Arkle 's skeleton when this peacock strutted into the bar . |
| 16 | The final words were pronounced in ringing tones as they arrived back in the hall , where Officer Hassan and Dieter were just emerging from the salon . |
| 17 | Patrick walked down to the gate , which the two stewards on duty were just closing behind the Bentley . |
| 18 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 19 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 20 | I mean I suppose if we were just going for the day it would be alright . |
| 21 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 22 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 23 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 24 | Sendei and Rodo were already scrambling over the side of the ‘ speeder . |
| 25 | What needs to be done before you move in — repair or installation work that would make life very uncomfortable for you if you were already living on the premises . |
| 26 | Catkins were already fluttering on the nut hedge behind Albert 's house and the sky was a pale translucent blue , as tender as a thrush 's egg-shell . |
| 27 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 28 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 29 | The German brigade officers were already spurring down the road towards Sharpe . |
| 30 | Some were already serving in the Militia , the Territorial Army and the LMSR Army Supplementary Reserve Units ( RE ) : others volunteered who were not in these units and more were conscripted . |