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 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 5 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 6 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 9 | Three men in black overcoats and dark glasses were fussing around the long cars and a small crowd had gathered to weep and wonder . |
| 10 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 15 | The curtains were hanging outside the smashed windows , the whole scene one of desolation . |
| 16 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 17 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 18 | Now they were rattling between the massive oaks of Glenvinean . |
| 19 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We were driving on the main road out of Fernley , I think … ’ |
| 24 | They were driving around the Green and the smell of damp earth and undergrowth was rich , overlaying even the sharp car fumes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There were reports that 1,000 people a day were dying on the Iranian border alone . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
| 29 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 30 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |