Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were breakfasting , some were just having coffee . |
| 2 | While the people of one region might still be using stone tools , those in another were already using bronze for all their tools and weapons and sometimes iron as well . |
| 3 | Thus , with regard to level of pay , ‘ the British were broadly speaking content ; the French dissatisfied . |
| 4 | 1991 was aground breaking year with the launch of the Fusion ; this year its propulsion plate technology is starting to filter down into more affordable shoes , namely the Mojo and Magnum . |
| 5 | Our assailants were now shooting fire arrows and these were already causing havoc amongst the defenders . |
| 6 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
| 7 | Twenty-seven for three overnight — Bill Athey spent the morning trying to hit Gloucestershire out of trouble … but when he went on forty-two — trapped lbw by Lampitt — Worcestershire 's first innings total of two hundred and seventy was still looking way out of reach . |
| 8 | One to George II from the pasha of Tripoli in the 1750s had to be sent to the Netherlands to be translated ; and another from the sultan of Morocco to George III in 1779 was still awaiting translation several months after reaching London . |
| 9 | For the first years of the Whig period after The Reform Act of 1832 , the government 's financial policies had seemed successful , but a change for the worse was now taking place . |
| 10 | The tolerable was always becoming suspect , and the suspect often tolerated . |
| 11 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |
| 12 | For the next two years fear of getting pregnant was constantly producing panic , misery and confusion . |
| 13 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |