Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 2 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 3 | The only people in whose company she would sit were those who came to Sunday lunch and were also waiting for Montaine 's return . |
| 4 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 5 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 6 | The defendants displayed outside their Oxford Street shop a sign reading ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ and were still trading from that shop 18 months later . |
| 7 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 8 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 9 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 10 | The money would be spent to pay social insurance benefits to people who had been persecuted and driven out of the country at the time of the Anschluss and were now living in countries such as Israel and the United States , and a small proportion would be devoted to projects in Austria . |
| 11 | Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army . |
| 12 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 13 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 14 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 15 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 16 | All students had passed their exams and were now working on projects , N Sinclair has succeeded in obtaining a post at Kew . |
| 17 | His men , searching both sides of the street , had covered that block of houses and were now coming up the street towards the fountain-house . |
| 18 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 19 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 20 | Scottish villages were so frequently attacked and burned , and were so lacking in adequate fortified protection , that farmers and small gentry could survive only by building stone tower houses with barmkins , or walled enclosures . |
| 21 | So the judge was calling a witness who was an important link in the prosecution case and was thereby assisting in making that case . |
| 22 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 23 | Screen-tested four years later , she did something nasty to her hairline in the interests of personal sultriness , and was soon starring with Fred Astaire in You 'll Never Get Rich and You Were Never Lovelier . |
| 24 | She had a scarf tied over her head and was evidently going into the village to shop . |
| 25 | The UK government had issued a licence approving the dumping and was reportedly considering at least 10 further licences . |
| 26 | Theresa had a transplant in 1989 and was just recovering from that ordeal when she had a brain haemorrhage and went into a coma for three months . |
| 27 | We were all turning gently to port as I cut the corner and was slowly closing on the Hun . |
| 28 | With the spotlight on him , Mr Getty could no longer keep his bolt-hole in the Ritz private and was shortly settling into Sutton Place , the Duke of Sutherland 's Tudor manor house in Surrey , with seventy-two rooms and 750 acres . |
| 29 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 30 | Some hoarse Czech expletive rent the air , then ‘ Forget it ! ’ he snarled , and was already getting into his trousers . |