Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | They drove through the lemon groves , where early workers were just arriving in a lorry to pick the fruit and load it . |
| 5 | The train crew were already collecting in the locker room when I made my way there and introduced myself as Tommy , the actor . |
| 6 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 7 | In the case of the Bedfordshire parish of Cardington in 1782 , only 57 per cent of boys aged fifteen to nineteen who had spent their childhoods there in their parents ' home were still residing in the parish . |
| 8 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 9 | Thirty minutes later the three of them were still sitting in the lounge . |
| 10 | At nine o'clock he and the transient education officer were still sitting in the ante-room reading old copies of Country Life when the mess sergeant came in to say Mr Sims was on the phone . |
| 11 | A narrow drive ran through a garden that was full of late summer flowers that were still blooming in the warmth of the autumn sun , and large , spreading trees that threw irregular patches of shade . |
| 12 | The sun rose while they were still lying in the thorn . |
| 13 | There was no shadow , but the drifting tatters of smoke from something that had been burning were still swirling in the wind and rain . |
| 14 | But the sounds of gasping breath rasped and echoed as Cardiff turned to see that Jimmy and Barbara were still standing in the stairwell . |
| 15 | Several other people were also staying in the house , and they all had to listen to Leonard talking about the mysteries of the unseen world . |
| 16 | Hundreds of black-headed gulls were also joining in the feast of freshly hatching insects , paddling over the waves to snatch them from the surface , whilst in the Island Bay we came upon three superb black terns , dipping and turning over the water . |
| 17 | She was a plump young nome who wore trousers and was good at engineering and had actually volunteered to be a guard instead of staying at home learning how to cook ; things were really changing in the quarry . |
| 18 | Four of them were now standing in the mud trough between the sand and the bank , about fifty yards upstream of the breakwater . |
| 19 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 20 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 21 | Whatever ideas of deposing Mary were tentatively circulating in the summer of 1559 , it would have been an immensely dangerous step to take . |
| 22 | The only difference was that the mortar bursts were further away than yesterday , some were even landing in the village . |
| 23 | Erm how many staff were there working in the house in Llaneilian ? |
| 24 | They were certainly patrolling in the region . |
| 25 | It was also based on the household unit , irrespective of how many people were actually living in the household . |
| 26 | I used to wonder whether they were actually taking in the meaning of what I was saying , or just listening to the accent . |
| 27 | By the end of 1980 we had made 160 collections and , despite problems with the budding technique , nearly 130 of these were safely growing in the nursery . |