Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 2 | The audience appeared to be loving every minute Smashing Pumpkins were shambling away on stage . |
| 3 | Dane , co-pilot Steve Johnsone , 25 , winchman Paul Trethewy , 33 , and radar man Glenn Holmes , 35 , were recovering back at base last night . |
| 4 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 5 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 6 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 7 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 8 | In 1937 , 15 million people ( one-third of the population ) were holidaying away from home for a week or more . |
| 9 | Soon they were driving almost through countryside , there were no street lamps any more ; and Boy suddenly found himself saying , stop the car . |
| 10 | But on that morning my happiness was clouded by something he said to me as we were walking home to lunch : ‘ Your parents know about you , Jim — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | The couple were walking home at midnight in February when Watson struck . |
| 12 | When I first mentioned the subject of the shoes , as we were walking home from school that evening , he was n't sure what I was talking about . |
| 13 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 14 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |
| 15 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 16 | It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore . |
| 17 | The year was 1956 and teenagers were hatching out into fashion peacocks , no longer content to follow blindly in the footsteps of their sober-suited parents . |
| 18 | The wolves were howling closer at hand . |
| 19 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 20 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 21 | Fifteen months had passed since the end of the Great War , and now the docks and wharves of London were filling up with produce and commodities of all kinds . |
| 22 | The boys were looking around with interest . |
| 23 | Beyond , the computer personnel were looking around in horror , some with hands over their ears as the screaming went on and on . |
| 24 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 25 | Her eyes were looking out to sea . |
| 26 | First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage . |
| 27 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 28 | I recently visited a plant in Mexico where two employees of my company , a Canadian and an Englishman , were operating happily in Spanish , with an entirely Mexican management and labour force . |
| 29 | International relations in Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the First World War were more and more influenced by several factors which , if not always new , were growing rapidly in importance . |
| 30 | Some educational psychologists were turning away from psychometry . |