Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then she noticed that the corners of his mouth were twitching and realised he was finding it hard not to laugh . |
| 2 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 3 | Outside in the howling , flobs of rain were twisting and twining around the few remaining hutches . |
| 4 | The computer in the head could n't cope with the extra distortions that would be introduced if the fish 's body were bending and twisting like an ordinary fish . |
| 5 | On every screen , thin silver towers were spouting flames , sections of stone wall were bulging and bursting like balloons . |
| 6 | A further quarter were investigating or planning Open Systems implementation . |
| 7 | She took it through to the kitchen where she and her friend were breakfasting and handed it over without speaking , then watched Stella 's face as she read . |
| 8 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 9 | Even so , his head hurt , it felt as if the planes of his skull were pinching and thumbing his eyes from behind , in the sockets , as if to pop them out . |
| 10 | The numerical growth of states participating in the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s reinforced the Soviet perception that the global ‘ correlation of forces ‘ was shifting away from the West and that Western-sponsored multilateral military alliances and alignments in the Third World were fragmenting or weakening . |
| 11 | Mr Dinkins expressed an envy of Tokyo 's cleanliness and low crime rate , but said conditions in his city were improving and urged Japanese companies not to pull out their investments . |