Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet we were seeing seeing the film from the Americans where the film stars of the day with their twin sets and fully fashion stockings and the pearls and what have you . |
| 2 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 3 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 4 | Model mum Jilly and her little sidekick were helping to launch the NSPCC 's anti-whacking offensive in the wake of a survey about parenting . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 6 | Even in Central Asia , the railway and its stations were helping to make the world one . |
| 7 | Two urchins were struggling to detach the machine gun from its mount . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it flourished within a discipline that had emerged to help the farmers who were struggling to exploit the prairies in a way that destroyed the traditional climax . |
| 9 | He once finished third , but more often he has sacrificed his own chances by slowing down to help British runners who were struggling to complete the course . |
| 10 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 11 | He looked into the cradle the painters were using to paint the outside of the balustrade from , and saw an old radio so spotted with paint it could have been an art exhibit . |
| 12 | It was littered with ladders , pails and other decorators ' paraphernalia and the air was permeated with the odour of the chemical the workmen were using to strip the woodwork . |
| 13 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 14 | Some were rinsing brooms ; some were scrubbing clean the pans they 'd used for plastering , scouring them with river silt and grass . |
| 15 | Again her eyes were blinking as if her memory were groping to recall the special occasion when her father had a walking stick and she had a parasol . |
| 16 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 17 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 18 | We were endeavouring to develop the policy that would become the programme of a Labour Government who would take power in about 1990-91 and remain in office until about 1995-96 , by which time we would have the beginnings of the Trident programme . |
| 19 | In all three republics , with minor local variations , a largely united people with a distinct cultural identity and a previous history of self-rule were seeking to renegotiate the nature of their relationship with the Soviet state and its economic and political system . |
| 20 | Throughout the Italo-Abyssinian conflict of this period , Nizan forcefully argued the need for collective security , on the one hand , by voicing his implacable opposition to the colonial ambitions of Mussolini , and on the other , by focusing attention on the highly dubious diplomatic manoeuvres of the British and French governments , the more reactionary elements of which were seeking to use the conflict as a " pretext for a new imperialist arms race " . |
| 21 | According to one , Sotheby 's had foreclosed and were seeking to sell the painting themselves in Switzerland at a price around $35m , a substantial reduction on the auction price — a private sale being preferred to the public ignominy of auction . |
| 22 | They were seeking to establish the link between blood temperature and someone 's relative mental ability , whereby if you know one you can estimate the other . |
| 23 | In general , these early feminists accepted the broad contours of the family : women were seeking to enter the public domain without recognising the implications of the private domain for this process . |
| 24 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 25 | The Albanian Council of Ministers on March 5 said that " enemies " of the country were seeking to hamper the " normal conduct of the election campaign " . |
| 26 | Earlier this evening at the Tory twins were recommending to read the city council funding handbook , I would also like to recommend that they also learn something about Tory housing policy . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Poland and Czechoslovakia were refusing to allow the transit of Soviet military equipment being brought back to Moscow from Soviet installations in eastern Germany . |
| 28 | According to unofficial Armenian reports at least 17 Armenian villagers were killed and over a hundred wounded , and the Armenian authorities alleged that the troops were refusing to allow the wounded to be evacuated for medical treatment . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth rainforest campaigner , Tony Juniper , said that the northern countries were refusing to address the main issue : " That forest destruction is caused by poverty and debt … |
| 30 | In the western provinces , where the Christian population was overwhelmingly Catholic or in communion with Rome , peasants were refusing to fulfil the economic obligations which they owed to the Orthodox clergy . |