Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But meanwhile North had discovered that the secret shipments of arms to Iran were generating upwards of $15 million which he proposed diverting to fund the American-backed Contra forces fighting in Nicaragua for whom Congress had refused to provide any further financial aid on the grounds that Reagan was involving America in an operation to overthrow by force another country 's legitimate government . |
| 2 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 3 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 4 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 5 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 6 | A man and woman were walking ahead of him , so he slowed his pace until the woman opened the door to room 214 and went in without bothering to look at her partner . |
| 7 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 8 | Suddenly , all the other Minpins , men , women and children , were climbing out of their windows and making their ways towards Little Billy . |
| 9 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 10 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 11 | My head popped outside ; five young men were bounding out of the darkness from a car on the road . |
| 12 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | CONSUMER confidence and spending were improving ahead of the decision by John Major to call an election , suggesting that the economy might have started to pull out of recession but for worries about the election outcome . |
| 14 | It is obvious to see from the photos that nuff of them were rushing out of their heads ! |
| 15 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 16 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 17 | Too much was happening that he could n't explain , things were spiralling out of his control . |
| 18 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 19 | Well-dressed suckers were pouring out of the upstairs theatre , barrelling down the rickety spiral staircase , skidding on the highly polished floor . |
| 20 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 21 | And I looked up at tap and this water were pouring out of tap , I thought oh ! |
| 22 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 23 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 24 | The fish they were pulling out of the Swedish lakes were badly deformed . |
| 25 | And if you were going above of course , that note would be ? |
| 26 | Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported . |
| 27 | ‘ In this back street , ’ he said , ‘ they were making coffins like they were going out of fashion . ’ |
| 28 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 29 | The builders of Canary Wharf were going out of business and needed help . |
| 30 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |