Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 2 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 3 | They were dozing happily side by side on the sands , when a jet plane roared overhead , waking them with a start . |
| 4 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 5 | In the green half-light , at the mouth of one of these holes , two rabbits were sitting together side by side . |
| 6 | Although the French right-wing armies held their stations , those of the centre and left , including the BEF ( shortly to comprise five divisions ) were retreating steadily south toward Paris . |
| 7 | Indeed , once families were earning over £3 per week in the Midlands and the South East , where the car industry and the new consumer industries were developing , they had the prospect of a much improved standard of living and a significant improvement in their life opportunities . |
| 8 | ‘ He said Tottenham were receiving over £1m for Lineker . |
| 9 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 10 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 11 | On March 19 , for example , the superior-grade Brent crude was fetching only $17.93 per barrel . |
| 12 | My eldest daughter Ailsa was staying there part of the time , studying art at the Byam Shaw College of Art , and falling in love with her tutor , whom she later married . |
| 13 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 14 | A just has to find out in detail what B was doing yesterday evening between 6pm and 8pm |
| 15 | Yesterday , the Hong Kong Government confirmed that it was spending about $1,000 per head for those deported . |
| 16 | In February 1990 the United States announced that it was giving only $1,000,000 to the government 's economic recovery programme ( ERP , launched in April 1989 ) instead of the $6,000,000 indicated earlier and the $13,000,000 requested by Canada , the chair of the support group . |
| 17 | Likewise the second night passed without incident , but on the third night , when I was tidying away papers in my office , a dishevelled deputy Sister came in . |
| 18 | Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die . |
| 19 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |