Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 2 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 3 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 4 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 5 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 6 | Enemy machine guns were firing from all directions . |
| 7 | Guns were firing from both sides across the Harbour and also from ships . |
| 8 | Also , coincidentally , other rebels were gathering in that same year . |
| 9 | Already the national press and media were gathering in this tiny island . |
| 10 | Later they constructed arches with radiating voussoirs — though they were not the inventors in Europe of this type of construction : the Greeks were building in this way from the fifth century . |
| 11 | The saddest story relates to Canoe Store of Emsworth who were struggling like many others . |
| 12 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 13 | No they 're the twins that were hanging off that young girl were n't they ? |
| 14 | They were hanging off this young girl . |
| 15 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 16 | I was constantly hearing that people were reacting to all this technology , expressing a wish to go back to basics with a simple bow , a look at the wind , an arrow loosed into the heavens and a hope that with luck it might hit the target . |
| 17 | They heard the muffled thud as the charge blew before they set off to see how others were faring on this southern lock . |
| 18 | But as they were returning with all speed , Rodrigo of Bivar raised the country , and came up with them in the mountains of Oca , and fell upon them and discomfited them , and won back all their booty , and took all the five Kings prisoners . |
| 19 | With the casualty beds still unoccupied the medical staff in hospital grew bolder in their attempts to help Fulham 's children , who were returning from this first evacuation in large numbers . |
| 20 | The House will recall that in the latter part of last year both my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined measures to be taken by both the Government and mortgage lenders with the excellent aim of reducing the level of repossessions that were occurring at that time . |
| 21 | The BBC is seen by Mrs Whitehouse as not only reflecting the changes that were occurring in that period , but also as actively encouraging or even precipitating them . |
| 22 | By the mid-1980s , confrontations were not confined to major urban centres , but were occurring in most parts of the country . |
| 23 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 24 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 25 | They were laughing into each other 's faces at some private joke ; they had n't seen me . |
| 26 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 27 | we were bidding for this ! |
| 28 | ‘ She 'd make anything go , ’ the girl said , a second after reading a paragraph on the front page of Variety about two big London managements — no mention of him — that were bidding against each other for the show . |
| 29 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 30 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |