Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 2 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 3 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 4 | you said you were walking back with Alan and Marie cooee |
| 5 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 7 | Fifteen months had passed since the end of the Great War , and now the docks and wharves of London were filling up with produce and commodities of all kinds . |
| 8 | First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage . |
| 9 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | Old women in white coats were clattering around with loofahs and stainless-steel buckets and throwing water over motionless pink men on slabs . |
| 11 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |
| 12 | Whereas before we were going up in leaps and bounds . |
| 13 | You were going down to Jean and Ronald 's ? |
| 14 | People who were going in for fines and just daft shoplifting and that were getting their bairns taken away . |
| 15 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 16 | The builders of Canary Wharf were going out of business and needed help . |
| 17 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |
| 18 | The thing is the said to me she said , oh were going out in style and have a drink , had a really nice sandwich there like , it was french loaf about that bit , get nice home cooked lot 's of cheese and onion right , really nice . |
| 19 | Yeah but er you see on Christmas Day children were going about in bikinis and and shorts , or no socks or so |
| 20 | My mother looked dissatisfied , but I switched off my bedroom light and we were moving downstairs towards Robert and the tray of martinis . |
| 21 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 22 | It was still well before nine when she pushed her way through the revolving doors of Lucas Sales , and Luke 's employees were drifting in in ones and twos . |
| 23 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 24 | Everywhere arguments were breaking out between debtors and creditors , winners and losers . |
| 25 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 26 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |
| 27 | Huge umbrellas of black vitrodur atop turrets … umbrellas that could , and indeed were closing up into cones and steeples . |
| 28 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 29 | ‘ James and Catherine were doing well at school and had their whole lives in front of them . |
| 30 | So it was an uphill struggle and within three months we were doing well in shop and I left my job and since then I 'm in Walsall . |