Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 2 | The only people in whose company she would sit were those who came to Sunday lunch and were also waiting for Montaine 's return . |
| 3 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 4 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 5 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 6 | The money would be spent to pay social insurance benefits to people who had been persecuted and driven out of the country at the time of the Anschluss and were now living in countries such as Israel and the United States , and a small proportion would be devoted to projects in Austria . |
| 7 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 8 | All students had passed their exams and were now working on projects , N Sinclair has succeeded in obtaining a post at Kew . |
| 9 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 10 | Screen-tested four years later , she did something nasty to her hairline in the interests of personal sultriness , and was soon starring with Fred Astaire in You 'll Never Get Rich and You Were Never Lovelier . |
| 11 | With the spotlight on him , Mr Getty could no longer keep his bolt-hole in the Ritz private and was shortly settling into Sutton Place , the Duke of Sutherland 's Tudor manor house in Surrey , with seventy-two rooms and 750 acres . |
| 12 | There were rows between him and Dennis , who could become exceedingly tired and emotional and was already shooting in New Orleans without a script . |
| 13 | He had something up his sleeve … an idea had germinated and was already going into action . |
| 14 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
| 15 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 16 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 17 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 18 | Frankie had left home and was now living in lodgings in a little backstreet near the pub they were sitting in . |
| 19 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 20 | He had been a Cambridge friend and was then lecturing in classics and economic history at Manchester University . |
| 21 | It could fatten on coarser feed than the Durham and was early maturing for beef , and the oxen could be good draught workers as well as slaughter beasts , though the cows were not good milkers . |
| 22 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 23 | In the winter of 1940–41 , having moved to Shamley Green , he contracted influenza which he could not shake off : he spent half of January and most of February in bed , and was still recuperating at home in March . |
| 24 | He did n't want to usurp any announcement by SCO ( see page one ) and was still talking in terms of how SCO might gracefully go to SVR4 and whether the companies ' two technologies might be blended . |
| 25 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |