Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Manor ground fans were queuing throughout the day for their big-match tickets . |
| 2 | Football fans were dancing in the streets over in Hereford too … |
| 3 | I realised slowly that the screams were coming from the kitchen . |
| 4 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 5 | She looked up to see that Belle had n't made it : her legs were dangling into the corridor . |
| 6 | His tanned , muscled legs were dangling in the water and Ruth steadied herself by grasping them . |
| 7 | His trouser legs were scorching from the fire and he twisted to one side . |
| 8 | Meanwhile some 2,600,000 people in the central and southern provinces were suffering from the effects of a 60 per cent fall in agricultural production attributed to drought and conflict . |
| 9 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 10 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 11 | Revolutionary Iran responded with the familiar accusation that the superpowers were uniting at the expense of Iran to secure their own interests . |
| 12 | In addition to changes in existing trades , such as engineering and boot and shoe manufacture , new trades were developing from the 1880s : sewing-machines , cycles , and motor and electrical manufacture . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 15 | In Yugoslavia itself , Tito 's 3rd and 4th Armies and associated partisan units were advancing from the south and east through Slovenia , the north-western province of Yugoslavia ( bordering Italy and Austria ) , in pursuit of the retreating German forces and of Yugoslav anti-communist formations and groups retreating with them . |
| 16 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 17 | Her red high heels were clicking on the pavement . |
| 18 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 19 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 20 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 21 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 22 | And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up and he himself was in the stern asleep on the cushion . |
| 23 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 24 | But Peterson contends : ‘ By the early thirties , gentle waves were washing against the hull of organized baseball ’ ( 1970 , p. 175 ) . |
| 25 | It was high tide ; the wild , white-crested waves were dashing against the parade , sending clouds of spray into the street . |
| 26 | His knees his knees were dissolving in the ebb of the Channel |
| 27 | Both Greeks and Jews were living on the borders of the Persian Empire . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 30 | The British forces invaded the Falklands with the loss of two frigates and uneasy doubts were surfacing about the fireproofing of naval ships . |