Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 2 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 3 | The lines were coming out as written , but the play was dying a slow death . |
| 4 | " Jack " , in Dublin , had been to bars and meeting-places , had made inquiries , had met this man and then that , reporting back to Bert and Jasper that things were going on as they should . |
| 5 | As in many parts of Europe the farmers were carrying on as in the past but economic changes in the country were making them more vulnerable . |
| 6 | Bill Copland ordered action stations at midnight , when the German searchlights were going out as the anti-aircraft defences stood down . |
| 7 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 8 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 9 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 10 | As a result , a number of employing organisations have already agreed to put their names to the document as users or intending users of the groupings , and more employers were coming forward as we went to press . |
| 11 | Fights were breaking out as the knot of flailing bodies rotated gently in mid-air . |
| 12 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 13 | Trade links were opening up as Russia could no longer trade with Germany in war time . |
| 14 | Rumours were flying around as to how the fire started . |