Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 2 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 3 | The professionals who had survived the cut were teeing off from 8 till 11 . |
| 4 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 5 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 6 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 7 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 8 | And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines . |
| 9 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 10 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 11 | Marco was kneeling up in his seat , turning round to check the control panel . |
| 12 | Marco was moving in on her again . |
| 13 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 14 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 15 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 16 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 17 | Annabel suddenly felt that her mind was spiralling out of control . |
| 18 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 19 | His attorney 's girlfriend was holding on to his legs as he went through the things that were wrong with his life , in broken English . |
| 20 | Morrison , whose girlfriend was travelling out for the Hong Kong tournament , reckoned that he sustained the injury when he turned quickly during Scotland 's opening tie against Australian Capital Territory in Canberra last week . |
| 21 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 22 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 23 | Her heart began to thud erratically , and she felt as if a great weight was pressing down on her making it difficult to breathe . |
| 24 | The bus the 30-year-old hooker was travelling in to Manchester airport suffered a puncture and Bishop made the rendezvous with only minutes to spare . |
| 25 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |
| 26 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 27 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 28 | From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood . |
| 29 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 30 | The boat was mooring up on the River Severn when it rolled over , trapping two of them underwater . |