Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 2 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 3 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 4 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 5 | ‘ We thought all our problems were behind us and were looking forward to a new life . |
| 6 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 7 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |
| 8 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 9 | Thus Harwell scientists were , in effect , now able to ‘ look inside ’ ZETA and were learning more about the behaviour of the plasma . |
| 10 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 11 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 12 | They had raised themselves but still remained crouched , and were moving slowly by the hedge towards the tree , when once again Martin 's attention was brought round to the strip of woodland , not by a noise this time , but by a strange feeling of impending danger . |
| 13 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 14 | The Elms had moved forward in their stolid fashion and were leaning ponderously over the tortured Balor . |
| 15 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 16 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 17 | When the first round of presidential elections in 1965 gave him a less than overwhelming endorsement , he concluded morosely that the French were no longer afraid of anything and were slipping back into " dispersion " and " facilité " . |
| 18 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 19 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 20 | At the annual parish meeting it was heard that the rats were beginning to explore and were going out into Church Street . |
| 21 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 22 | Jean Coulter and her friend had arrived early and were sitting quietly at a table with a good view of the room when , about half-pasteight , Joan and Derek entered the hotel , having left John outside in the taxi . |
| 23 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 24 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 25 | They had soon left the Circle behind and were climbing steadily into the hills to the north , their horses ' hoofs turning stones underneath the snow , straining on the steeper parts . |
| 26 | Biopsy specimens were also obtained from five patients ( mean age 38 years , range 35–40 years ) with familial adenomatous polyposis who had previously undergone total abdominal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis and were attending regularly for follow up . |
| 27 | ‘ I simply told them that you were my wife and that you had taken all our money and our little girl and were running off to London to be with your lover . ’ |
| 28 | She turned to find that the Doctor , Francis and Elaine had followed her , and were staring glumly at the fourfold choice of paths . |
| 29 | The fundamental problem faced by US business was that rivals in Europe and Japan were accumulating capital at a far faster rate ( figure 10.4 ) and were doing so on the basis of far lower wage costs ( table 10.5 ) . |
| 30 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |