Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 2 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 3 | These were the harrowing scenes at Heathrow airport as the group of Russian orphans prepared to return home to a country that regards them as mentally retarded … just because they 're without parents.They 'd spent twelve happy weeks in the Malvern Hills , being cared for by local schools.And they were dreading going back to Russia . |
| 4 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 5 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 6 | His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory , however . |
| 7 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 8 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 9 | They were standing looking out of his hotel window . |
| 10 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 11 | The same with Bartolini pickups , they work best with Bartolini circuits , so that 's brought back into service a couple of basses that were sitting leaning up against a wall in my house . ’ |
| 12 | Mainz Cathedral is immense and was altered in later periods when the crossing towers were rebuilt in different styles and houses were constructed abutting on to and becoming part of the cathedral flanks . |
| 13 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 14 | Who would look after Kirsty if Shiona was to go dashing down to London ? |
| 15 | Mr Grainger claims his 13-year-old son James was punched in the chest when he was caught larking about in lessons . |
| 16 | Yeah part part of the problems was say Going back to what Sergeant said about er the people in the from the housing , being mixed . |
| 17 | Anthony — the ‘ h ’ is n't silent , you have to lisp it — from The Chili Peppers was seen hobbling around on crutches today . |
| 18 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 19 | A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness . |
| 20 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |
| 21 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 22 | Thus Billig and Cochrane ( 1984 ) report that during their research a white girl , who in discussions with them had expressed strongly racist views , was seen walking out of school arm in arm with an Asian girl . |
| 23 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 24 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 25 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 26 | Redcar lifeboat was launched when the man was seen floating out to sea in the four foot dinghy . |
| 27 | It 's not that , but , every time he came he came near us George was saying coming out with an excuse , er that 's a phone for you . |
| 28 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 29 | Only this time , it was found rolling around in a dustbin . |
| 30 | Some gave themselves fierce noms de guerre , ‘ Rambo ’ and ‘ El Negro ’ , as if their only purpose was fighting for its own sake , though even that purpose was largely wishful thinking ; much of their time was spent hanging round in the camps , doing nothing . |