Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 2 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 3 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 4 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 5 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 6 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 7 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We were blundering around in the darkness ! ’ said Gurder . |
| 9 | Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal . |
| 10 | and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped . |
| 11 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 12 | A further 20 domestic rabbits were running around in the bowling green area when staff made the horrific discovery late this morning . |
| 13 | One minute we were quite settled in Leeds and the next minute we were running around in the rain in Brighton trying to get a flat and not being able to draw dole . |
| 14 | Unable to get a drink , the workers were standing around in the street listening to pacifist orators . |
| 15 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 16 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |
| 17 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 18 | Miss Lodsworth , exhorting her guides to greater endeavour in this modern world , was having great difficulty making herself heard over the din of Dancer 's group , who were warming up in the recording studio . |
| 19 | From what I could gather they were showing in in the area where the new ticket office is , as opposed to a bit screen on the pitch facing the east stand as they propose for the scum game ( And they 're getting a beer license for this too ! ! ! ! ! ) . |
| 20 | The team were sitting round in a semi-circle when she was introduced to them — although no one gave her a chair , or at least one with her name on it . |
| 21 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 22 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |
| 23 | And Diana Travers , after drinking and eating unwisely , had apparently herself dived into the Thames to swim out to her companions who were messing about in a punt . |
| 24 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 25 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |
| 26 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |