Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 2 | Even whilst the plague was raging , the King and parliament , who had fled to Oxford to escape , were drawing up new legislation to persecute the Nonconformists . |
| 3 | Then they were driving over rough ground , loose stones popping under the tyres . |
| 4 | Michael Gibson and his younger brother David were walking along High Row , Darlington , at 10.15pm on Friday when they were approached by three youths . |
| 5 | I suspect the answer lies in the demographic changes of the 1980s , which showed a substantial and unexpected in-migration to Scotland , on the same scale and pattern as the ‘ incomers ’ to Wales who were selling off expensive property in south east England and settling down on the proceeds . |
| 6 | They were travelling over familiar territory and life on the march had slipped into a routine . |
| 7 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 8 | The car was parked in front of an advertising hoarding , obscuring the health warning , while young women were handing out free Camel cigarettes . |
| 9 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |
| 10 | The rape and murder of four US churchwomen who were carrying out humanitarian work with the displaced in December 1980 has received the most detailed international press coverage , but it is by no means an isolated case . |
| 11 | The men were carrying out top-secret research into radar , and until now the incident has been shrouded in mystery . |
| 12 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |