Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 2 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 3 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 4 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 5 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 6 | Three men in black overcoats and dark glasses were fussing around the long cars and a small crowd had gathered to weep and wonder . |
| 7 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 8 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 9 | The fingers of her left hand were toying with the top button of her scarlet blouse , and Morse heard the siren voice beside his ear : ‘ What would you say to another little drink before you go ? ’ |
| 10 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 11 | The curtains were hanging outside the smashed windows , the whole scene one of desolation . |
| 12 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 13 | Now they were rattling between the massive oaks of Glenvinean . |
| 14 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 15 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 16 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 17 | A couple of bare-breasted girls in sarongs were returning from the communal laundry , the washing balanced on their heads , their breasts moving gently as they sauntered by , giggling at some private joke . |
| 18 | ‘ We were driving on the main road out of Fernley , I think … ’ |
| 19 | They were driving around the Green and the smell of damp earth and undergrowth was rich , overlaying even the sharp car fumes . |
| 20 | To some extent the spending was diversionary because it deflected attention from the cuts that were occurring in the orthodox funding mechanisms for current and capital expenditure . |
| 21 | There were reports that 1,000 people a day were dying on the Iranian border alone . |
| 22 | Two minutes later , on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome , the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind . |
| 23 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |
| 24 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 25 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 26 | The room was largely uninhabited : a group of women in jeans were laughing in the opposite corner , and two girls were in earnest conversation by the window , pink spiky heads leaning together . |
| 27 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 28 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 29 | The three men were walking over the top paddock . |
| 30 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |