Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 2 | In the agriculture industry attention centred , as in recent years , on environmental issues , particularly the removal of stockpiles of animal fertiliser from which nitrogen compounds were leaching into ground water and polluting the sea . |
| 3 | First costumes were already laid out , wigs were on stands , the changes were hanging in show order on rails in the wardrobe department . |
| 4 | A week later , Gould described the dramatic and exciting moment when , as he and his companions were returning from hunting kangaroo on a distant part of the Namoi plain , they approached a small group of acacia trees , and he met with the bronzewing once again : |
| 5 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 6 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 7 | In the mid-1970's Zelaya was imprisoned for 2½ years for his part in the murders of two priests and five peasants who were agitating for land reform . |
| 8 | The clamour begun earlier by the Japanese union had echoed around the world and seafarers ' unions in many countries were pressing for material recognition for the dangerous , difficult conditions in the Gulf . |
| 9 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 10 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 11 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 12 | Relatives of Poole and Mills say the two men were acting in self defence . |
| 13 | They claim they were acting in self defence . |
| 14 | Mills and Poole admit fighting with Wiltshire , but say they were acting in self defence . |
| 15 | They were passing over North Gate Bridge , and below them the River Lee flowed on to Cork harbour and the open sea . |
| 16 | For instance , it may be that some craft workers , particularly those working very close to the temple , were operating under temple jurisdiction and supervision , whilst others were free to work independently . |
| 17 | They believed they were operating with Government approval and even risked their lives to spy on Saddam . |
| 18 | Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death . |
| 19 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |
| 20 | ‘ Originally we were going to self finance , ’ says Simon Church . |
| 21 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 22 | I think you were teaching at night school . |
| 23 | The two Bf 109s responsible , were disposed of very quickly by up to 50 American fighters that were flying as fighter escort . |
| 24 | The Americans were petrified of Communism , and believed Communists were aiming for world domination , via the ‘ domino effect ’ of one country after another falling to it . |
| 25 | By that time , however , the constituency parties were complaining of trade-union domination at conference , and formed the Provisional Committee of Constituency Labour parties to challenge this feature of Labour conferences . |
| 26 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 27 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 28 | For the 1984 exercise it was decided to involve course organisers in the collection of information , so that they would have an improved awareness of what their own students were doing after course completion . |
| 29 | Two of their members were suffering from mountain sickness and their high-altitude porters had failed to arrive . |
| 30 | I was bored and lonely ; they were suffering from compassion fatigue . |