Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
2 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
3 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
4 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
5 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
6 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
7 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
8 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
9 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
10 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
11 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
12 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
13 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
14 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
15 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
16 | His feet were resting comfortably on the ship 's control panel . |
17 | Their hands were resting lightly on the wizard 's shoulders . |
18 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
19 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
20 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
21 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
22 | Pink bolts were rattling randomly about the area . |
23 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
24 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
25 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
26 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
27 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
28 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
29 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
30 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |