Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 2 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 3 | The great kings , Philip of France and Edward of England , were building up nation states . |
| 4 | Well I knew they were building there years ago ! |
| 5 | Men were bellowing fortissimo women screaming in order to be heard but Charity 's voice was cutting through the uproar effortlessly . |
| 6 | Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many . |
| 7 | We were drawing up plans . |
| 8 | The European Communities ( EC ) were drawing up proposals to control the export of chemicals used in cocaine production and guidelines for member states on controlling money-laundering by drug traffickers . |
| 9 | According to their latest results they were eating up backlog last quarter . |
| 10 | You know guys were bringing in deals I was going out and selling |
| 11 | And so and we were bringing in deals and they were phoning the clients back and saying , Look yeah great alarm systems blah blah we have an alternative one cheaper . |
| 12 | The servants were bringing in bowls of fruit , junkets of cream , plates of thin pastries , sugar-filled doucettes , and jellies formed in exquisite shapes of castles , swans and horses . |
| 13 | Helicopters were bringing in supplies and evacuating the wounded from the blockaded city . |
| 14 | Maura said you were driving up north . ’ |
| 15 | The last time I saw prisons like that was in northern Iraq , when the Kurds were knocking down doors and killing guards , freeing men and women who had seen daylight in years . |
| 16 | They were knocking back drinks as if there were no tomorrow . |
| 17 | In other words , the world was too complicated to be comprehended in systems , but the trouble was that the chaologists were oversystematising even chaos . |
| 18 | As they were walking up Buller 's Hill Bourne asked him , ‘ Why do n't you use your car , sir ? ’ |
| 19 | Baghdad declared that its forces were mopping up west of Fish Lake , having ‘ purged ’ the lake of the first and second waves of Iranians to cross . |
| 20 | When I investigated , I found that the long microphone lines across the stage were picking up BBC Radio 2 . |
| 21 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 22 | Macaques were picking up potatoes , taking them to the sea , and washing the sand off the potatoes ; they used one hand to dip the potato into the sea , and the other to brush the sand off . |
| 23 | A couple of inmates were picking up leaves from around the graves , sweeping them into a large black sack . |
| 24 | ‘ People were picking up bolt cutters for as little as £4 . |
| 25 | Not having worked on a Dalek story since the first one , Cusick was concerned that the creatures were apparently mobile outside their metal cities without any explanation as to how they were picking up power . |
| 26 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 27 | One thousand years ago the Mayans were cranking out codices not dissimilar to today 's illustrations . |
| 28 | Margaret and Jack Carolan , from Huyton , had sneaked a camera inside and were snapping off shots as keepsakes . |
| 29 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 30 | Most were writing up reports between assignments , or busy making arrangements by telephone . |