Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 2 | It welcomed the new ideas in La Fille Mal Gardée because the characters portrayed were familiar and were living in the farms and vineyards . |
| 3 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 4 | They 'd finished dinner and were sitting in the study together . |
| 5 | People were getting up out of their seats and were jiving in the aisles . |
| 6 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 7 | Although the machine is available and was shipping in the US at the end of 1992 , the latest information available at the time of writing is that it ships in the UK on 1st February 1993 , and the list price is £449 . |
| 8 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 9 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 10 | A little wind had been born from the breeze and was sighing in the walnut tree and rattling the scullery door . |
| 11 | Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs . |
| 12 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |