Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] in [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 4 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 5 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Beyond , the computer personnel were looking around in horror , some with hands over their ears as the screaming went on and on . |
| 8 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Robert and Jane Leyton and Stephen 's mother were waiting impatiently in reception when Christina dashed in . |
| 12 | The thing is the said to me she said , oh were going out in style and have a drink , had a really nice sandwich there like , it was french loaf about that bit , get nice home cooked lot 's of cheese and onion right , really nice . |
| 13 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |
| 14 | In the late 1970s and early 1980s , most were losing well in excess of 1,000 manufacturing jobs per month . |
| 15 | Figures were running around in chaos . |
| 16 | So it was an uphill struggle and within three months we were doing well in shop and I left my job and since then I 'm in Walsall . |
| 17 | The men in the picture were staring straight in front of them , dedicated to a new cause , the very first escadrille , as the caption informed readers , of Lebanon 's new blue-shirted Phalange party . |
| 18 | On several occasions I would find myself at 1,000 ft or above , and the undercarriage was still down : the flaps , if we had put any out , were still down : the engines were belting away in line pitch ; and the mixture control remained where it was — in rich . |
| 19 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
| 20 | Grade decided that the complaints from parents and teachers that kids were arriving late in class because of the series — not to mention that nagging suspicion that placing Neighbours on before the evening 's news bulletin could be a ratings coup — should be ignored no longer . |
| 21 | Many of the players were playing up in front of the water but Sam was through the green with a 2-iron . |
| 22 | So there you were sitting around in luxury at Zimmerman 's when somebody walked into the hospital and finished off the job on Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It seems to me that an awful lot of the voluntary sector does come from very much the individualist side of the equation which you were laying out in front of us Chris . |
| 25 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 26 | Sour milk was hanging up in muslin , to turn into cream cheese . |
| 27 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 28 | The man who jumped him had gone and the crowd about him was drawing back in horror . |
| 29 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 30 | She was weeping now in earnest . |