Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
| 2 | The publican 's aggressive stance towards the headmistress touched on deeper currents which were becoming condensed in the affair . |
| 3 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 4 | So the , the children in a sense remained children longer in the mixed ability situation , and again this was something that the teachers found , found very pleasing , in that the , the pupils were remaining involved in the school much more and much longer . |
| 5 | And in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way , so the children in a sense remained children longer in the mixed ability situation , and again this was something that the teachers found very pleasing in that the pupils were remaining involved in the school much more and much longer in a mixed ability situation . |
| 6 | Did your Gary Sprake also dive right over the ball when you were leading 1–0 in the cup final : - ) ) ) |
| 7 | ‘ I just guessed you were getting interested in the old Winter Garden stuff … ’ |
| 8 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 9 | Two lads from Teesdale , Alan and Neil , in their second season in the Dauphiné were bivouacking high in the fine weather spell and motoring round the guidebook classics . |
| 10 | moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were . |
| 11 | One Saturday night in the summer of 1966 police in Brooklyn apprehended sixteen teenagers of both sexes aged between sixteen and nineteen who were dancing naked in the street . |
| 12 | The senior amateurs were taking 80 in the wind last week . |
| 13 | Lecky , the cook , was singing off-key in the kitchen ; he was lewd as an octopus but no trouble if she stayed out of sight . |
| 14 | When word came from Germany that a dye product called protonsil was proving efficacious in the treatment of streptococcal infections in mice , Bovet set himself to analyse this ‘ clumsy , complex chemical ’ . |
| 15 | She would worry that Kelly was becoming involved in the sleazy aftermath of her father 's death . |
| 16 | It seems to have been assumed , however , that His Majesty would have acquiesced in a suggestion that he should invite the US to train the Vietnamese army and although the suggestion , like Acheson 's message , was not carried through because of political sensitivity the US was becoming involved in the war one way and another . |
| 17 | It was a fiction that was becoming threadbare in the spring months of 1989 . |
| 18 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 19 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 20 | The tug crew noticed the ship was lying low in the water and began to worry about her sinking . |
| 21 | That evening when the people returned from the show , they found that one of their mares was lying dead in the paddock . |
| 22 | Not so long ago Paddy was lying ill in the attic bedroom , now here he was changing bread into the body of Christ and wine into His blood . |
| 23 | At 1334 hours , the GCA final controller noted that aircraft was going low in the glide path at 7 miles . |
| 24 | They stood as symbols over the years of everything that was going wrong in the one-time fairytale marriage . |
| 25 | It was getting noisy in the wood . |
| 26 | The older girl cried ‘ Do n't let them take me , Mummy , ’ and they stood together on the doorstep for several minutes , until a policeman gently reminded Mrs B that her daughter was getting cold in the dreary February morning . |
| 27 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 28 | Now he was riding clear in the front , and so , on each wing , were Cormac and Ferteth , their shields held before them . |
| 29 | ( One angry creditor with a stick was stalking Baghoomian in the lobby of his gallery 's SoHo building on 28 March , the day the gallery bolted its doors shut . ) |
| 30 | Hermione was glowing radiant in the dusk , an intense silver light , vibrantly running in the tight curls of her hair like neon , in the soft pinker palms of her hands like candlelight , in her eyes and teeth like electricity , and across all her whole skin like fluorescence . |