Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small stones , sticking to the rim , became dislodged and at one point were tumbling down the curve as quickly as the wheel was rising , giving the appearance of effervescence . |
| 2 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |
| 3 | I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote , halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank , release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank . |
| 4 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 5 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 6 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 7 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 8 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 9 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 10 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 11 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 12 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 13 | The three rabbits were returning down the bank of the stream and had not yet seen Hazel and the others . |
| 14 | I answered , ‘ They were throwin' out a pile of ol' props n ’ costumes . ’ |
| 15 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 16 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 17 | Jaguar talks : Jaguar and General Motors were thrashing out a deal to protect the luxury car maker from rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 18 | In the New World , there was movement of crops between Mexico and coastal Peru by 1000BC and , a few hundred years later , the people of southern Arabia were trading down the coast of East Africa . |
| 19 | One particular sadistic character opened up his observation hatch while we were groping around a smoke filled tank , looked in with a satanic grin and shouted , " Ha ! |
| 20 | I told him we were softening up a bit . |
| 21 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 22 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 23 | Mother and daughter were walking down the room together . |
| 24 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |
| 25 | One , like any new band we were checking out the opposition . |
| 26 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 27 | Out at the line-up , the three men were climbing over a routine thirty-five-footer when they heard screaming and the toot of car horns from the beach . |
| 28 | On the screen , three tiny shapes were climbing down a thread . |
| 29 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 30 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |