Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
| 2 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 3 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 4 | they were lying down the other day |
| 5 | As we were clattering down the worn red tiles of the corridor , a junior aide bumped into De Gaulle , apologising with great profuseness . |
| 6 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 8 | Looking our of the aircraft window , we were flying down the Red Seat coast , the water aquamarine , coral reefs pale and shimmering beneath the water surface . |
| 9 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 10 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
| 11 | In a moment the two of them were running up the wide curved stairs . |
| 12 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
| 13 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 14 | It were flowing down the both ways down . |
| 15 | There was no difference between ourselves and Tom Jones , we were trotting out the same material night after night and it was so safe and predictable — two things I 'd always vowed Stiff Little Fingers would never be . |
| 16 | THOSE who insisted that the Queen pay income tax were barking up the wrong tree . |
| 17 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |
| 18 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
| 19 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 20 | Then his feet were on the stairs and he was walking down the narrow , dark steps , which twisted sharply to the right . |
| 21 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 22 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 23 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 24 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 25 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 26 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 27 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 28 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 29 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 30 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |