Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis has been limited to manufacturing , but similar trends were occurring in other sectors , and the process of concentration had features which are of more general significance . |
| 2 | Similar things were happening in other countries . |
| 3 | Oh I know , w when we were going we , I stood in the gangway alongside you and I could see , as they were swaying , people were pushing onto other people who were sitting down . |
| 4 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 5 | A rather higher proportion ( 35 per cent ) treated their job as a " Stop-gap " and were looking for other work [ see Table 4.2 ] . |
| 6 | Amal 's older married siblings were living in other areas of the city . |
| 7 | But the activities of these departments were growing in other ways , too . |
| 8 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 9 | If in the age of Paul VI the major challenges to Roman policy still came from Western Europe , by the age of John Paul II they were coming from other continents . |
| 10 | This is this is fairly new to us we bought the company because it was doing exactly what we were doing on other products . |
| 11 | In so much that , they were dithering over other things that we think |
| 12 | Now South America , as we have seen , was isolated during the period in which horses and cattle were evolving in other parts of the world . |
| 13 | The ones who were looking at them were looking silently and glancing at their catalogues , and the rest were talking about other matters — mostly about where they had last met . |
| 14 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 15 | When they were n't making things they were fighting in other ways . |
| 16 | Yet problems were emerging with other transport modes that were discouraging their use within BP . |
| 17 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 18 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 19 | You see our most recent budget was largely constructed even neglecting what was happening in other industrial countries . |
| 20 | She was so interested that she was only vaguely aware the room was emptying of other guests until a waiter picked up their empty glasses and obstinately replaced the ashtrays Roman had borrowed . |
| 21 | Even when he was writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the fiat Suffolk coast , local meannesses , and an odour of brine and dirt — tempered occasionally with the scent of flowers . |
| 22 | He said the Government was looking at other types of custodial sentence for young people . |
| 23 | The school secretary was looking for other jobs to supplement her pay packet , there was n't enough money in the budget to pay for the books to teach the new curriculum , tests for seven-year-olds were bringing their own problems . |
| 24 | By the time Horsley met him he had won the franchise for Lancashire Cable , had a controlling interest in Merseyside Cable , and was looking for other cable companies . |
| 25 | It has also to be remembered that although in the early years of the twentieth century , the advanced countries of the western European industrial ‘ base ’ ( Great Britain , Germany , France , Belgium and Luxembourg ) still provided the bulk of European production , industry was growing in other countries . |
| 26 | After that we embraced and , with tears pouring down our cheeks , we were made to go outside , where a lorry was waiting with other villagers in it . |
| 27 | Now the Collector 's finger was pointing at other objects , including even those belonging to himself . |
| 28 | He insisted on a greater commitment to Marxist education , and he expressed the belief that the Serbian revival was spreading to other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | On April 24 it was reported that the strike was spreading to other parts of Byelorussia . |
| 30 | On the contrary , he was satisfied to feel that he was sharing in other people 's lives . |