Example sentences of "and were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 3 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 4 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 5 | Seb 's statement brought a chorus of derision from a couple of navvies who had entered the tent behind him and were listening to the conversation . |
| 6 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 7 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 8 | In particular , they exerted more power within the Labour Party , were increasingly respected by the National government , and were moving towards the reduction of interunion rivalry . |
| 9 | They had left behind the Silberner Hirsch and were moving towards the place where I lay . |
| 10 | The babies had fifteen consecutive days with no ‘ accidents ’ and were reaching for the potty followed by elimination 80 per cent of the time . |
| 11 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 12 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |
| 13 | The bulldozers had turned round now and were heading for the bridge . |
| 14 | A batch of children accompanied by a young woman and the billeting officer who had brought Willie had walked past them and were heading towards the Town Hall . |
| 15 | They had their heads down and were pounding across the ground with one aim in mind . |
| 16 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 17 | The bussed consignment of grooms had arrived and were sitting in a group wearing Race Train T-shirts above their jeans . |
| 18 | They 'd finished dinner and were sitting in the study together . |
| 19 | We had finished dinner and were sitting around the campfire . |
| 20 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 21 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 22 | And after we left and were walking into the street , he asked , ‘ Do you think there 'll be a war ? ’ |
| 23 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 24 | Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces had breached Gorazde 's defence lines in hand-to-hand fighting at the villages of Borovac and Gornja Glavica and were advancing on the town 's outskirts . |
| 25 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 26 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 27 | The students , all Hindus from colleges of the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana , had come to Patiala for a students ' festival and were sleeping in a dormitory when they were attacked yesterday . |
| 28 | Service Supervisor John Taggart reports thousands of woodlice were flushed out of their harbourages and were falling off the roof during treatment . |
| 29 | They had followed her up the path meantime , and were coming into the room ; her uninspiring sons , Paul the lawyer , George the insurance broker , Hubert the medical student , his eyes strained with reading . |
| 30 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |