Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] in a " in BNC.

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1 Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived .
2 The bussed consignment of grooms had arrived and were sitting in a group wearing Race Train T-shirts above their jeans .
3 The students , all Hindus from colleges of the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana , had come to Patiala for a students ' festival and were sleeping in a dormitory when they were attacked yesterday .
4 When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame .
5 Margy was twenty-seven when we spoke with her and was living in a one-bedroomed flat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with her three-year-old daughter Donna , her second child .
6 Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp .
7 She woke up some hours later and everything was clean and white and she was clean and was lying in a fresh cotton garment between stiff sheets .
8 He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 .
9 He was wearing a brown leather jacket , black jeans and was carrying in a blue holdall .
10 She fell , and was sitting in a spreading pool of blood .
11 She has won European , Olympic and World titles , was unbeaten in a major championship since 1986 and was racing in a country which has a special place in her heart .
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