Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 2 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 3 | They were walking like a fellow and his date . |
| 4 | MORE than 50 children were swimming in a pool when deadly clouds of chlorine gas bubbled up through the water . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 6 | Soldiers of the Special Presidential Division were flirting with a barmaid and objected when a security guard , a karate instructor identified only as Ekofo , offered her a drink . |
| 7 | Not everyone was absorbed with play — most were looking for a sign that Syd was back |
| 8 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 9 | We had a somewhat similar experience at a previous church I was at where we were looking for a minister and the , the man er who was , who came to us was again very nervous and excitable and so on . |
| 10 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 12 | Both Institutes were replying to a Customs & Excise consultation paper . |
| 13 | She said you were interning with a stockbroker and it was a special summer programme , so all the best and all the rest everyone else has already said to you . |
| 14 | And it was quite quiet for a little bit because most of them had established themselves and we were waiting for a breakout and er we did n't get on the move again until the they went through the after it had been . |
| 15 | The hostess of the coffee place thought they were waiting for a table and corrected them for not standing in the queue . |
| 16 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 17 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 18 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 19 | They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover . |
| 20 | In the summer of 1954 he drove Minton around northern Italy , stopping at Toulon on their return where the Moynihans were staying in a house that belonged to Pissarro 's granddaughter . |
| 21 | From 1992 – 93 the target was reduced to an 18-month maximum and many districts were aiming for a year or even less . |
| 22 | The grinding , stretching sounds were rising to a pitch and behind it all , another low-register noise . |
| 23 | Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems . |
| 24 | Well because I thought that the hits were coming to an end and I did n't want to become an all-round entertainer , I was n't suited to it , I w I did n't have any feeling for all-round entertaining . |
| 25 | The critical dimensions of the transformational effort were starting with a vision that was at first unclear or at least insufficiently communicated , focusing too much on cost reduction and not enough on developing a new state , trying to function without adequate transition-management structures , and consciously intervening in the matrix-management issues until they became acute . |
| 26 | The strongest argument in favour of the taxpayers is the anomaly which would arise if the employer 's business were running at a loss or was subsidised by endowment . |
| 27 | The McLaggans were spoiling for a fight and I thought the lairds might have the mettle to retaliate . ’ |
| 28 | And yet the , to say that the wind does n't exist because you ca n't see it would be erm would be pretty dangerous if you were standing on a cliff and saying there 's no wind around here , and there 's a howling gale blowing you off and into the water . |
| 29 | We were talking about a point and I was not even particularly annoyed . |
| 30 | And just to prove further that things never change the Oban Town Council were arguing about a slipway and boat park and whether to set land aside for an Esplanade … |