Example sentences of "were approach the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a decent map it had become obvious that we were approaching the high ridge of the mountains . |
| 2 | They were approaching the canal bridge . |
| 3 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 4 | Now the police , the ambulance crews , the crowd , the reporter , were approaching the pit , looking down at the grey shard that was all that was left of the Kershaw Worm . |
| 5 | They were approaching the abbey now and the grass of the headland was becoming more hillocky . |
| 6 | Footsteps and the sound of a boy 's voice were approaching the hedge . |
| 7 | We were approaching the island from the south-east , coming with the wind at a height of six thousand feet . |
| 8 | Two fishing boats were approaching the small harbour , and at the far end of Main Street I could see the bulk of the Mantela . |
| 9 | Progressively the cadets were approaching the transhuman condition of Rogal Dorn , though they would never equal their Primarch . |
| 10 | Moving in a north-easterly direction towards the Soviet border , they were approaching the shore of an ice-bound lake . |
| 11 | Footsteps were approaching the car . |
| 12 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 13 | Time was passing and now we were approaching the reservoirs , Fernilee and Err wood . |
| 14 | On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers . |
| 15 | Because of the seriousness of the disease , interviewers knew whether they were approaching the parents of a case or control child . |
| 16 | Those on board were aware that they were approaching the point at which it would have to swing east and head inevitably back to Europe . |
| 17 | They were approaching the turn to Kalkara . |
| 18 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 19 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 20 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 21 | They were approaching the open riverside yard where the giant square tubes were being assembled , on pontoons that floated with each spring tide . |
| 22 | erm , they were approaching the District Council were n't they ? |
| 23 | They were approaching the outskirts of Yonder , the new part . |
| 24 | Luce 's bitter musings came to a halt as she realised they were approaching the back entrance of a sinister-looking building . |
| 25 | All too soon , we were approaching the Victorian pier at Clevedon … the point where we had to leave the boat.As for the rest of the passengers … they had an afternoon on a Devon beach to look forward to … and the memories of the sail of the century . |
| 26 | A turbulent third day 's debate at the Congress of People 's Deputies was marked by emotion and alarms over a report — later discounted — that troops were approaching the Kremlin . |
| 27 | Such interim copies would be necessary if the logs , which are not serial but wrap-around , were to approach the point of overflow . |