Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 March 1975 two electricians were checking for air leaks beside electricity cable ducts in the Browns Ferry power station in Alabama — then the world 's largest operating nuclear plant . |
| 2 | Both the science and history departments were tending towards RBL approaches in support of a developing middle-school syllabus , and the issue of study skills had been recently debated in several forums across the school . |
| 3 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 4 | David Taylor said the bailiffs were looking for property belonging to his brother 's former girlfriend , who left the house two years ago . |
| 5 | South Yorks police said they were selling off property recovered from crooks — or unclaimed loot from robberies . |
| 6 | In answer to our enquiries they said they were waiting for goods coming from Egypt to receive customs clearance . |
| 7 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 8 | I thought they 'd probably want to see the video I was splicing together from the footage we were getting on opium growing in the Bekaa Valley , but these were cops on a government-paid vacation . |
| 9 | The salaried groups were expanding as employment grew in professional and administrative services ; for every two civil servants in 1929 there were three in 1938 . |
| 10 | I can honestly say that of the many hundreds of queries I have answered where fish were dead/unwell , probably less than 1% were suffering from disease caused by a pathogen ( causative organism ) , and about 5% from probable organic failure ( tumour , heart failure , and the like ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We were talking about radiation transmitted from the cosmos and he mentioned about his space flight , ’ explained Eric , who thought nothing more of it until he received the signed sticker through the post . |
| 12 | One weakness of this study is that being retrospective , although the authors could control for inter-rater reliability in defining cases of schizophrenia , they were relying on diagnoses made by clinicians at an earlier period . |
| 13 | Generally , these films were working at luminance ranges beyond their zones of reciprocity failure , resulting in poor resolution , low contrast and indifferent colour rendition . |
| 14 | Nowadays everything was subject to time and motion study and fine scientists , original minds , were working to schedules created by smart-alecks hired from private enterprise . |
| 15 | I was depending on Francesca to look after Thornton , and give him lunch and introduce him around , since she 'll be working with him . ’ |
| 16 | It was daring of McChrystal to start with Bach on the saxophone , even if this sonata — normally for violin or flute — is of very doubtful authenticity . |
| 17 | One day , Walton relates , as he was walking to Salisbury to worship in the Cathedral and play music with his friends , |
| 18 | Late in the day , against the dollar the pound was trading at $1.4490 compared with $1.4495 . |
| 19 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 20 | The outspoken tone of the article was typical of the style of writing the periodical was developing with authors shielded by anonymity . |
| 21 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 22 | And here came ‘ Space Oddity ’ which was coinciding with men landing on the moon , which is what I think inspired him to write it , there is no question about it . |
| 23 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 24 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 25 | The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London . |
| 26 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 27 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 28 | By the time Philip Miller came to Chelsea thirteen years later , attention was turning towards imports arriving from the East as well as the West . |
| 29 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 30 | Agnes was speaking through teeth clenched against any further emotion , and fumbling in her handbag . |