Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 2 | Kids were playing in this street , as in all the streets of the Gorbals . |
| 3 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 4 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 5 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 6 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 7 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 8 | But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew . |
| 9 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 10 | Not so long ago lenders were falling over each other to offer mortgages . |
| 11 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The movies were advancing on several fronts and the social theme was but one strand in a more complex whole . |
| 14 | With the coming of steam power and mechanisation by the 1840s , machines were working in some mills and life was very different . |
| 15 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 16 | Enemy machine guns were firing from all directions . |
| 17 | Guns were firing from both sides across the Harbour and also from ships . |
| 18 | In an instant the rabbits were running in all directions through the bean-rows , each one tearing by instinct towards holes that were not there . |
| 19 | AT ALTHORP — pronounced Altrup or Althrup , but never Althorp — the flags were flying at half mast , mourning the death of Johnny , the 8th Earl Spencer . |
| 20 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Now , everything had changed , and their bodies were moving round each other in the orange light of the dance court . |
| 22 | Within a split second of the initial shock , bodies were running in all directions . |
| 23 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 24 | When the noises were recorded , it was found that much of the call was at frequencies too low for us to hear , and it seems likely that the females were responding to this infrasound . |
| 25 | I just got into the trench in time as a few explosions were occuring in several parts of the orchard . |
| 26 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 27 | This I found , at various times , my fingers were suffering from this wallop in the oh , at ten past nine in the morning . |
| 28 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 29 | Investigation of town plans reveals that many cities were growing at this time ; the records reveal increasing long-distance trade ; in the Mediterranean there was a growth of the commerce of the Italian cities so striking that Professor Lopez has labelled it and its northern counterpart ‘ the commercial revolution ’ . |
| 30 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |