Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football fans were dancing in the streets over in Hereford too … |
| 2 | His tanned , muscled legs were dangling in the water and Ruth steadied herself by grasping them . |
| 3 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 4 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 5 | His knees his knees were dissolving in the ebb of the Channel |
| 6 | Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade . |
| 7 | Those whose husbands were working in the area in reserved occupations were fortunate indeed . |
| 8 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 9 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a fine fight , ’ Isay said , and his eyes were shining in the candlelight . |
| 11 | But there was no anger in Cat 's voice ; his bright , clear eyes were focusing in the distance , seeing eternal Peace and Joy . |
| 12 | Whatever the Navy 's intentions , their shells were landing in the Commando positions and causing some havoc . |
| 13 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 14 | Piers was standing in the small kitchen , dwarfing it with his presence . |
| 15 | Killion and Richards , half undressed and filthy , were carrying Church ; his feet were dragging in the mud . |
| 16 | Both her parents were sitting in the living room reading . |
| 17 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 18 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 19 | A number of common guillemots were feeding in the tidal streams which run strongly here . |
| 20 | We saw large numbers on the crossing and thousands of lesser and brown noddies and fairy terns were breeding in the trees near the shore . |
| 21 | Despite the Mediterranean sunshine at Redcar yesterday , the tell-tale signs of mushy peas and chips were blowing in the wind . |
| 22 | The twisted machinery pieces cast shadows on the floor , weird and grotesque , so that , for a heart-stopping moment , Fenella thought that strange beast-things were crouching in the corners and remembered that Caspar had said something about Sentry Spells ; minor enchantments that the Robemaker might have left on guard in his absence . |
| 23 | Agnes Huszti , the project manager at the Hungarian Tax Authority , APEH , who is responsible for appointing experts to evaluate the technical parts of the bids , reported that all the major companies were participating in the bidding process . |
| 24 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 25 | Heather from flours and dried fruits was standing in the gap between two aisles . |
| 26 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |
| 27 | Sure enough , the enemy mortars were bursting in the fields on both sides of the road . |
| 28 | They skirted an indoor pool , empty as yet , though a few early arrivals were sitting in the comfortable chairs , enjoying afternoon tea . |
| 29 | Groups of Palestinians were waiting in the area in the hope of being hired for a day 's casual labour . |
| 30 | And , according to the radio , doves were cooing in the Kremlin . |