Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no he went out but they somebody ran in there and h well B Brian and I think Pat and David were having a drink with him and I think they suddenly thought well he 's been in there a long time . |
| 2 | Edward and Arthur Hardy were spending a short farm holiday at Horsmonden , a 2½ hour train journey away from Margate . |
| 3 | Gurder and Angalo were having a blazing row when Masklin got back . |
| 4 | By 1500 BC , the metal workers of Crete were producing a large range of cooking and storage utensils , including some large cauldrons made by riveting together several bronze sheets : some fine examples were found at Tylissos . |
| 5 | To be fair , Down were fielding a scratch squad and goalkeeper Ashley Gibson was blameless as he denied Instonians at least half a dozen more goals with an outstanding display . |
| 6 | IN OUR June edition we wrongly stated that Sutton Coldfield RFC were bringing a £500,000 civil action against a referee who presided over a game in which the club 's colts captain , Ben Smolden , broke his neck . |
| 7 | It so happened that the Missions to the Adult Deaf and Dumb of Ireland were seeking a missionary , and Maginn applied for the position . |
| 8 | At that time , Carvin were offering a ‘ factory direct ’ service in the USA — a sort of glitzy mail order affair which was almost unique in the music industry . |
| 9 | Increasingly , the Ashleys were hiring a new breed of staff ; qualified and experienced . |
| 10 | Purvis suggested that he and Simon were creating a ‘ sound poem ’ of pretty high quality . |
| 11 | Me an , me and Natalie were having a real bad go at him ! |
| 12 | At the kitchen table , twelve-year-old Jimmy and ten-year old Bertie were playing a game of Snap . |
| 13 | Presumably , thought Thiercelin , the defenders of Telnitz were having a harder time , but there was no way of communicating with them . |
| 14 | He felt that Cambridge were knocking a little harder at the door each year but it will still need something special to break Oxford 's hold on the race . |
| 15 | Barbour was twice on the mark after the restart with two penalties and Holywood retreated further against a now rampant RUC , whose flying wingmen Hamilton and Walton were having a field day . |
| 16 | She and Carlo were staying a night , possibly two nights , because Carlo had n't felt up to snuff all the summer ( here young Carlo groaned wearily and leant against a wall in confirmation of his feeling considerably below snuff ) . |
| 17 | Behind him Senna and Prost were playing a daredevil driving game … the Frenchmen kept trying to get past and the Brazilian kept stopping him … |
| 18 | Indeed , in January 1709 , when the Commons were discussing a recently published Nonconformist tract calling for the repeal of the Test , it was a Whig , Sir James Montagu ( brother of the Junto chief ) , who moved the House to vote it a seditious and pernicious libel . |
| 19 | The conservation corps of the YTS were clearing a nearby churchyard , and every lunchtime , the foreman pulled out an armchair which he kept in the church specially for the purpose , and had an hour 's sleep in the churchyard . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Bath were issuing a reminder that reports of their decline were a little premature . |
| 21 | Pakistan and South Africa were playing a crucial game at the Gabba in Brisbane when rain intervened to make South Africa 's total of 211 appear almost invincible . |
| 22 | Gas supplies via Georgia were meeting a part of the energy needs . |
| 23 | ‘ He dared to feel , as many of us did , that the people of Georgia were receiving a bad deal from the Kremlin . |
| 24 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 25 | Kohl also quashed rumours that Schäuble and CDU Defence Minister Volker Rühe were planning a " grand coalition of national unity " with the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) . |
| 26 | This does not mean as some modern writers have assumed — that Richard and Philip were having a homosexual affair . |
| 27 | After he calmed down , Scott reasoned that if Annabel were having a heart attack , she would n't be able to talk on the telephone . |
| 28 | His performance was intended as a celebration of that renaissance , and also of the prospects for world peace : for in Moscow Comrade Gorbachev and President Reagan were holding a summit meeting which promised to bear fruit in disarmament . |
| 29 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 30 | Parents on Merseyside were keeping a firm grip and a watchful eye on their children yesterday . |