Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people were coming from all over the country to see her , and anyone sitting at the back of the stalls or the upper circle would not catch a glimpse . |
| 2 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
| 3 | The , the Labour Party was seeking to actually to the value of the airfield . |
| 4 | The drill was screaming and an intense heat was rising from deep inside the shaft . |
| 5 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |