Example sentences of "[that] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 2 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 3 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 4 | We had disagreements in the House about the number of Territorial Army personnel that were serving in the Gulf . |
| 5 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 6 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 7 | Cyclamen corms that were resting over the summer can be restarted now . |
| 8 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 9 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 10 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 11 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 12 | The noise was a foul but apt accompaniment to the schooner 's fitful motion for , with her wheel lashed and her sails only half trimmed , Wavebreaker was bridling and jerking into the short hard seas that were driving through the North-East Providence Channel . |
| 13 | The tears that were burning at the back of her eyes began to fall as soon as she entered her room , and , flinging herself on the bed , she gave way to helpless misery . |
| 14 | However , when Mary stood up and took hold of the reins that were trailing on the ground , she thrashed the horse with her cane . |
| 15 | These villagers lived alongside the modern world , the developed complex of Monte Samana , and the growing beach hotels and windsurfing bases that were sprouting by the week along the seafront . |
| 16 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 17 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 18 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
| 19 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 20 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 21 | The turmoil that emerged both immediately before and after Mayer 's departure epitomized , perhaps more than in any other of the major Hollywood studios , the convulsions of change that were sweeping through the film capital , eventually spawning an underground of new , raw and raucous talent of which Nicholson was to be part . |
| 22 | A problem arose because it was believed that Macmillan had secured terms of reference which would entitle the Tribunal to investigate not merely Vassall , but also rumours relating to Vassall that were circulating at the time , rumours about many discreditable matters but mainly his sexual activities . |
| 23 | Well , I I I mean , it , it , it 's nothing to the stories that were circulating in the late Victorian period about the Duke of |
| 24 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 25 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 26 | And May leant forward from her chair and stroked the cat and its kitten that were lying on the rug before the blazing coal fire . |
| 27 | They travelled all over the countryside asking farmers if they could buy the rustic doors that were lying in the mud at the back of the barn . |
| 28 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 29 | So if y there would be the cognitive demon which was the letter A and what would happen is , it would start looking at the features that were coming into the system and it would say , are they the ones associated with A ? |
| 30 | They also worked towards and in alliance with the landed interest in the context of a low-profile , informal , state where there was a shared unease about the pressures for change that were coming from the lower social orders . |