Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 2 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 3 | And they were just coming round in the summer . |
| 4 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
| 5 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 6 | Other Companies of the Battalion were already moving off in time to take their appropriate places in the March Table . |
| 7 | Troopers of the rearguard were already falling back in reasonable order . |
| 8 | Besides , the other girls were already walking along in pairs . |
| 9 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 10 | By 1986 , when the repression was more selective in character , urban retention levels were much higher , though 10 per cent or more of students were still dropping out in first , fifth and sixth grades . |
| 11 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 12 | The beetles were now standing around in pairs , each pair holding a length of string , a piece of chalk , and a tape measure . |
| 13 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 14 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 15 | I was already sliding down in my seat trying to indicate to my parents without actually looking away from the screen that I was n't at all interested , when suddenly there was a close shot of the fly as it settled on her shoulder . |
| 16 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 17 | If , like me , you thought ‘ Green Mind ’ sounded like J was just bollocking about in his pa 's basement up to not too much of anything , rejoice ! |
| 18 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 19 | I found in Northumberland , the worst bit was it was just going out in the cold to the shower . |
| 20 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 21 | A police photographer was just finishing up in the corner of the room where Doyle had fallen . |
| 22 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 23 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 24 | Er I was still slobbing around in my dressing-gown and you know yesterday 's clothes and so I I I thought I 'd better get up and do stuff . |
| 25 | Floy was still turning over in his mind ideas and schemes for getting rid of Balor . |
| 26 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 27 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 28 | Miss Kenton was still standing out in the hall where I had first spotted her . |
| 29 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 30 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |