Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing Gorbachev 's policies were deviating from a number of fundamental Marxist principles , a group of members formed the Marxist Platform of the CPSU shortly before the selection of delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU . |
| 2 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 3 | Investigations came hot on the heels of the new sound and realistic films and by the time of The Public Enemy and Scarface things were building to a crescendo . |
| 4 | At the same time , events across the North Sea were building to a crisis . |
| 5 | He indicated the fishing boat in the foreground , where the fishermen were struggling with a mass of unfurled canvas . |
| 6 | Folly felt as if she were struggling against a tide . |
| 7 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 8 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 9 | A group of us were eating in a restaurant at a big hotel off the Strand a couple of years ago . |
| 10 | Devastated as she was by the news of Liz and Owen 's terrible accident — and the knowledge that their lives were hanging by a thread — she was also feeling dazed and stunned at her husband 's dramatic reappearance in her life . |
| 11 | The mosquitoes were hanging like a cloud over us . |
| 12 | Her feet were resting on a step-ladder . |
| 13 | The first bright green leaves were unfolding in a hawthorn hedge beneath which a pair of blackbirds flirted and ‘ chooked ’ . |
| 14 | Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 17 | The ships they could see on the right side of the aircraft were returning from a rehearsal for the service of remembrance that was held on the ocean every year . |
| 18 | The 63 students and teachers from Weston-super-Mare College , Avon , were returning from a day trip when the coach skidded and crashed . |
| 19 | They were returning from a day 's repair and construction work at an army base in Omagh . |
| 20 | The youths attempted to defend themselves by claiming that the girls , who were returning from a pop concert , had consented . |
| 21 | It was reported on March 21 that a transport plane , in which members of Senegal 's contingent in the anti-Iraq coalition were returning from a visit to Mecca , crashed in Saudi Arabia killing 92 people . |
| 22 | The other time Artemis saw him was one day when she and Nanny were returning from a walk by the lake . |
| 23 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 24 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 25 | ‘ This girl and her brother were driving on a stretch of road that does n't exist anymore . |
| 26 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 27 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 28 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 29 | The canisters were landing in a cornfield about half-a-mile away . |
| 30 | Small doses of non-sophistication were amusing as a break from other things , but he would n't have been able to bear all that romance day in , day out . |