Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 2 | Between 1870 and 1918 it appeared to eugenicists concerned with finding ways of breeding a better race that the wrong class of people were using birth control . |
| 3 | The main themes of this reform were to reduce the power of PACs , which were using election money to attain legislative influence . |
| 4 | None of the three bombs exploded because the Argentinians were using World War Two propeller bombs which need to be dropped from a great height to detonate . |
| 5 | Even the Guardian 's own headline seemed reluctant to blame the soldiers : ‘ 13 killed as paratroops break riot : ‘ Soldiers were returning Derry sniper fire , ’ says Army' ( ibid.:43 ) , and the paper 's editorial distanced itself from Winchester 's account : |
| 6 | a high proportion of students were delaying job search , mainly because they planned to continue writing up their theses . |
| 7 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 8 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 9 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 10 | And David Gardner 's defence of processed hops does remind the listener powerfully of the arguments advanced by the brewers in the 1960s when they were replacing cask ale with keg beer . |
| 11 | Over the last 30 years , when names like Pele , Eusebio , Cruyff , Müller and Maradona were igniting world football , the people of Scotland could retaliate with their own itinerary of hapless dupes and national scapegoats . |
| 12 | He would start the evening in his quiet , sometimes moody , Kansas drawl and would end up in ranting fashion , telling them all that things would be different when he and the rest of ‘ new ’ Hollywood were running things , and they would all be clapped in irons , which was hardly the brightest way to inspire confidence at a time when you were seeking film money . |
| 13 | Tyne Tunnel Trading Estates Ltd. were seeking planning permission for a 360 000 sq . |
| 14 | Well they were selling pot pourris when I was queuing up to get , |
| 15 | The group of councillors from across the political divide were selling appeal raffle tickets in Darlington town centre to show their support for the day centre . |
| 16 | One day Eva and Ingrid were selling War Cry in a pub in London when a rowdy crowd asked them to sing " The Old Rugged Cross , " a favourite hymn in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 17 | But the most common motive for protest was a mixture of worry about the dangers , mistrust of uncontrolled technological advance , and anger at the way the authorities were ignoring public opinion . |
| 18 | B. in clearing a site of demonstrators who were impeding survey work for a new nuclear power station . |
| 19 | When you came to those two meetings at Oulton Park you were wearing school uniform ! ’ |
| 20 | It was borne upon us pretty quickly that the interested watchers were wearing air force blue , and that from the distance it probably looked to them as if we were all stark naked . |
| 21 | They were no longer wearing string vests , they were wearing Lacoste polo shirts with an alligator emblem on the pocket or ‘ Cisco Kid ’ shirts with diagonal zippers . |
| 22 | She and her crew were wearing body armour during the attack , but metal splinters pierced shuttering around the building and smashed into their room . |
| 23 | you were entitled to free treatment because you were getting Income Support or Family Credit or |
| 24 | Your pension will automatically be permanently increased if you were getting invalidity allowance with invalidity benefit within eight weeks before reaching retirement age . |
| 25 | Thought you were getting Christmas pudding |
| 26 | NOTE : EVEN IF YOU WERE GETTING HOUSING BENEFIT AND/OR INCOME SUPPORT BEFORE 1ST APRIL 1990 YOU MUST STILL APPLY FOR COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFIT BY COMPLETING THE NECESSARY FORM . |
| 27 | During the seventies unions were reporting record membership . |
| 28 | 52% said they were expecting partner remuneration to fall in absolute terms over the next year . |
| 29 | By 1939 280 local authorities were providing family planning help , together with almost seventy private clinics . |
| 30 | Socially this is a serious problem because most of these countries were experiencing housing stress of one kind or another even before the recent downturn in house production . |