Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guitar was playing again , this time in slow rhythm , and after a while a voice broke in . |
| 2 | The crowds were peeling away from the fight in terror , and most of the ragged people of the procession had disappeared , been engulfed . |
| 3 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 4 | The crowds were laughing now , and booing . |
| 5 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 6 | The Prince was sitting quietly there , his hands clasped , staring down at the table , so silent he could have been taken for some studious monk ; his robes , however , were splendid , his fingers covered in precious rings , and his hair and golden beard carefully combed and oiled . |
| 7 | In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ . |
| 8 | The wind velocity gave evidence that the bike was performing very well . |
| 9 | Brenda Duffy , of Keir Hardie Crescent , South Bank , Middlesbrough , said she knew the witnesses but claimed she did not know the trial was going ahead . |
| 10 | The torch had caught the planks laid across it and the flames were reaching up towards the rafters above . |
| 11 | The flames were dying down . |
| 12 | And the interest was prime rate high , and the flames were falling now because little was left for them to feed from . |
| 13 | And I believe myself today , at present day , the tramcars were coming back again , there would be , could be a way of resolving this matter of going onto different buses . |
| 14 | To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous and pays no tribute or attention to its good work and to the robust way in which it represents its interests and those of the industry . |
| 15 | Only a few weeks ago things had seemed bleak , but now the board was filling nicely with his plays . |
| 16 | She said patients and staff at the hospice were looking forward to the visit . |
| 17 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 18 | The cinema was moving in . |
| 19 | ( The tide was coming in , as my mother would have said . ) |
| 20 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 21 | The tide was flowing strongly his way . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a lot o' trade comin' in an' the tide was runnin' fast . |
| 23 | The tide was going out , she saw ; if she walked along the parade as far as the pier , she would be able to come back along the sands . |
| 24 | The boat was making for Tower Bridge , round the distant bend to Rain 's right ; the tide was running out towards Limehouse Reach , beyond the long sweep of river to her left . |
| 25 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 26 | Clearly all the heart was going not only from the land , but from the people as well . |
| 27 | The afternoon was drawing on and he must proceed with despatch , for he had promised his star , Fantina , his dearest daughter , that he would be back early . |
| 28 | The afternoon was drawing in and the water was choppy under the keen wind . |
| 29 | The afternoon was slipping away , the afternoon was racing by . |
| 30 | The afternoon was wearing away . |