Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 3 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 4 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 5 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 6 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 7 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 8 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 9 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 10 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 12 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 13 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 14 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 15 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 16 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 17 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |