Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were obviously staking out the place . |
| 2 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 3 | My shadow lapped the outside steps because the doors were open letting out the heat , wide open because I had n't bothered to bolt them , and the side door was open too , creating a through-draught that made the fire smoke and the dogs restless . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing to do with us ’ , says the Press Office , ‘ we were just renting out the space ’ . |
| 5 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 6 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 7 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 8 | Several rabbits were already running down the field towards a distant hedge dappled white with great patches of maybloom . |
| 9 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 10 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |
| 11 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 12 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
| 13 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 14 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
| 15 | In a progress report on Sun 's year-old Open Graphics Initiative , Doug Schiff , international director for the programme , said all of Adobe 's products would be available for Sun Sparcsystems by the autumn , but that the two companies were still working out the details of providing PostScript as a ‘ foundation library ’ for developers on Sparc kit . |
| 16 | Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front . |
| 17 | Yanto had picked him up from his home ten minutes before , and they were now racing down the A38 towards Bristol on their first outing on the bike . |
| 18 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 19 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 20 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 21 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
| 22 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 23 | ‘ Talk about being desperate to get back out on the road , but we were actually counting down the days between finishing the album and starting this tour , ’ quoth guitarist Andy Couzens . |
| 24 | Er Chairman there was mention from the Conservative bench that were actually closing down the South East , well there 's no suggestion of that . |