Example sentences of "that were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , she walked towards him , struggling to quell the alarm bells that were ringing inside her head , and she should have listened to them because the minute she was inside the room Damian closed the door behind him and double-locked it . |
| 2 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 3 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 4 | The two Bf 109s responsible , were disposed of very quickly by up to 50 American fighters that were flying as fighter escort . |
| 5 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 6 | Restrictive policies were introduced in all major countries in 1973 in response to the price acceleration of the mini-boom and the large wage claims that were beginning to be submitted in its wake . |
| 7 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 8 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 9 | We were all people that were looking for something to believe in . |
| 10 | It was , it was James and the Giant , it was about this boy being ill-treated by these two old ladies that were looking after James . |
| 11 | We had disagreements in the House about the number of Territorial Army personnel that were serving in the Gulf . |
| 12 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 13 | ‘ Why ? ’ demanded Meredith , leaning towards him and impatiently pushing back strands of red hair that were wisping across her face . |
| 14 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 15 | But I was n't about to vice either that thought or any of the others that were gathering in my mind . |
| 16 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 17 | The existing members were told you can either join the new scheme with its improved benefits , reduced contributions , with certain rules that were operating in favour of the employer that were against them , but it was a balancing act , or if you do n't want that you can stay with the old scheme and continue with exactly the same terms . |
| 18 | But the shadows that were deepening over Europe were reaching out to " change everything " in lives across the world , and the Burrows family were to be no exception . |
| 19 | But the sound of her own craven voice seemed to wake the ghosts of resistance that were slumbering inside her . |
| 20 | Er , if those that were earning over a certain amount , who certainly do n't need this child benefit to same the degree anyway , that 's those of at the lower end of the pay scale we could they could certainly save a lot of money , and they would n't have to do the squeeze down on the ones that would have the most . |
| 21 | And then he was lying face downwards again , his knuckles pressed into his mouth , trying to smother the fearful sounds that were erupting from his being . |
| 22 | The sheep had huddled together to keep warm and as the drifts covered them the weaker animals were trampled and crushed beneath the stronger sheep that were struggling for air . |
| 23 | We examined the mitotic rate of Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells that were proliferating in low serum under the influence of β -oestradiol-activated c-Myc , with and without Bcl-2 expression . |
| 24 | No they 're the twins that were hanging off that young girl were n't they ? |
| 25 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 26 | Cyclamen corms that were resting over the summer can be restarted now . |
| 27 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 28 | Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made . |
| 29 | These suspicions have some basis since the network of security relationships that were developing under ASEAN auspices increasingly amounted to a low-profile military association in effect , if not in name . |
| 30 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |