Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 2 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 3 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 4 | Hybrids armed with lasguns were pressing hard against a picket line of planetary guardsmen . |
| 5 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 6 | Then they were gliding in to a crown of diamond lights and it was time . |
| 7 | Security chiefs were meeting today in a bid to counter the current upsurge in loyalist violence which has claimed four lives in as many days . |
| 8 | When our 'plane touched down at Ibiza Airport , we were looking forward to a couple of weeks in the sun , hoping that the children would be amused and we could just relax . |
| 9 | I did , however , remember us asking the children if they were looking forward to a fortnight in Umbria . |
| 10 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 11 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
| 12 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 13 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 14 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 15 | Hardly had they found their land legs when crew members were celebrating again at a reception at the Royal Southampton Yacht Club . |
| 16 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 17 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 18 | The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard . |
| 19 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 20 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 21 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 22 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 23 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Other main activities related to accidents were getting up from a chair , walking unaided and getting into bed . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw that he and Simone were getting along like a house on fire . |
| 27 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 28 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 29 | They were getting out of a stretch limo when we rolled up in our private bus . |
| 30 | My parents were pointing up to a beam of light and saying ‘ Dumbo ’ . |