Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chain of fishermen were unloading baskets of crabs from a boat moored against the quay ; beyond this others sat mending their nets in the sunshine , and further along signs extolled holidaymakers to experience the splendours of deep-sea fishing . |
| 2 | Two youths were helping police with inquiries . |
| 3 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |
| 4 | In America in particular lawyers were accepting protests from stars who claimed their image was ‘ intellectual property ’ which should only be reproduced with their permission . |
| 5 | Members of the Ladies Committee of Belvoir Park Hospital were bringing cigarettes into wards on trollies along with sweets minerals and magazines and selling them to smokers . |
| 6 | For instance , only 18 per cent of retailers , 22 per cent of caterers and 60 per cent of food manufacturers were keeping food at temperatures recommended by the Department of Health . |
| 7 | All around him people were hurling possessions from windows and dragging horses from smoking stables . |
| 8 | The agreements struck after the stoppage of the previous year had left many loose ends which were causing trouble among stevedores , carters and lightermen . |
| 9 | Police were investigating reports of windows being broken at the pub . |
| 10 | A record number of parents were getting aid through scholarships and more than 100 were being helped under the Government 's assisted places scheme . |
| 11 | In those days , I think the Home Office and the Foreign Office were full up and we were getting people from universities and some of them were pretty useless , heads full of all sorts of knowledge but no common sense . |
| 12 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 13 | This was a government-patrolled reserve and they were staying nights in resorts . |
| 14 | The funds were often borrowed by speculators who then reinvested them in strong currencies in the expectation of revaluations , a hideous spiral by which central banks were providing funds to speculators who stood to make a profit from them if the currency was revalued . |
| 15 | Secondly , although a number of regions were providing courses for trainees which had had initially beneficial effects , there was a general shortage of such courses and also of the skilled resources necessary for the development of well-founded schemes . |
| 16 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 17 | Mrs Abigail , she 'd told Lavinia , had called her a fool that morning just because she dropped a tin plate when they were doing Meals on Wheels . |
| 18 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 19 | The government responded by carrying out mass arrests of pro-democracy activists , and by the end of February violent confrontations were taking place between demonstrators and the security forces . |
| 20 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 21 | Similar developments were taking place in pharmaceuticals , aerospace , construction and automobiles , where it was becoming increasingly difficult for firms to maintain capability in all the technology options for the future . |
| 22 | Mr Healey claimed the Tories were putting paperwork before patients and cash before care . |
| 23 | They were making love without contraceptives . |
| 24 | Lloyds Bank chief Brian Pitman denied they were increasing margins on loans to support profits in the recession . |
| 25 | Similarly , on the eve of the Reformation , over 90 per cent of testators in three of the archdeaconries of the diocese of Lincoln were leaving bequests to cathedrals , and over 80 per cent to parish churches . |
| 26 | There were more performances of his works , and his own interpretations were influencing changes in styles of performance . |
| 27 | More efficient weed control and the autumn sowing of crops were depriving birds of resources , particularly during the winter months , making the fields highly unattractive habitats . |
| 28 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 29 | At the express wish of Queen Mary herself , Florence , like thousands of women throughout the Empire , was knitting socks for soldiers at the front . |
| 30 | A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen . |