Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 3 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 4 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 5 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 6 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 7 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 8 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 9 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 10 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 11 | It was only when she came out that she noticed the carriage they were driving back in . |
| 12 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 13 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 14 | The Washington Post of April 13 reported that death rates among refugees were unclear , but that relief officials estimated that up to 1,000 were dying daily in camps along the Turkish and Iranian borders . |
| 15 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 16 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 17 | Martin Lee of WHS felt that , to the group 's benefit , people were trading down in their gift buying generally and that some its higher priced books did well as a result . |
| 18 | cos is southern Italy and it was nice and sunny during the daytime , so much so that we were walking about in just T-shirts er and all the Italians that came to us said , ye well language , what on earth are you doing without your er sweater |
| 19 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |
| 20 | Masses were ending everywhere in Dublin , and I walked back to my hotel through streams of home-going worshippers . |
| 21 | Hens and geese were picking around in two small haystacks and fleets of tiny yellow chickens were half hidden beneath some planking and under the foundations of some rickety sheds . |
| 22 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 23 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Beyond , the computer personnel were looking around in horror , some with hands over their ears as the screaming went on and on . |
| 26 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 27 | Let me tell you , Monsieur Lemarchand , that , while you and your mother were living here in the lap of luxury with my father , my own mother was forced to move constantly to cheaper accommodation . |
| 28 | Under an agreement signed on Sept. 24 Romania agreed to accept back all Romanians who were living illegally in Germany in return for DM30,000,000 in reintegration aid . |
| 29 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 30 | Small boys in grey shirts and pants and red ties were wandering around in groups . |