Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three other late-night drivers were eating sandwiches and drinking beer . |
| 2 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
| 3 | This was a report that gangs of men were raiding deer-parks and shooting deer with rifles fitted with silencers , then selling the animals for meat . |
| 4 | Over the previous three years perestroika had become a reality ; the Soviet people themselves had changed , and were facing facts that had earlier been obscured from them . |
| 5 | They were holding paws and singing . |
| 6 | The couple she had met as the Corduroys , Ken and Louise , were holding plates and looking round for somewhere to sit . |
| 7 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 8 | Thousands of slaves , naked and in pain , were breaking rocks and moving the rubble in long columns towards the burning embers of a huge pyre . |
| 9 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I went to the island of Kos with some mates and at the same time as I was being ill some of my mates were having headaches and feeling ill . |
| 11 | ‘ You were lucky , ’ she wrote to Molly once in answer to her sister 's repeated urgings that she should come over to Leeds where there were plenty of young Jewish men who were starting businesses and wanted wives to help them . |
| 12 | In a reported case the same year , Lorraine Agu and Malcolm Hirst were members of a group of animal rights supporters who were demonstrating slogans and distributing leaflets about animal rights on a spacious pedestrian precinct in Bradford . |
| 13 | There were straggling villages that trailed along the bank with a boat to each house and nets hanging to dry or to be mended . |
| 14 | Chief trading standards officer Peter Mawdsley said : ‘ They were swapping films and selling them . |
| 15 | His team-mates — notably Guy Smith , Justin Keen and Jonathan Clues — were winning races and battling for the title . |
| 16 | He would have checked your equipment in advance , brought extension lead and table , checked the video on that particular TV and set it all up while you were shaking hands and making conversation rather than getting flustered . |
| 17 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 18 | They were carrying spades and measuring sticks . |
| 19 | Mrs Thomas always made us welcome , whether we were delivering goods or taking a pleasure trip in the trap . |
| 20 | It was as if she were arranging flowers or carding wool . |
| 21 | Professional had not modded the doors on their demonstrator at Farnborough , but were offering options that included a cargo winch and other turnaround improvers . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the noise was ear-splitting : this road passes along the bottom of a gorge and the Serbs and Bosnians on the two sides were exchanging shells and mortar bombs which caused tremendous reverberations from the cliffs . |
| 23 | While people were dreaming dreams and singing songs , and the Evil One and his angels strutted their mastery over the world like cocks in a barnyard , the omnipotent God made the decisive move that was to win the Great Battle for the world . |
| 24 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 25 | Her colleague , Sister Nina Clarey , was on duty in the centre , and she looked round in surprise from the store cupboard where she was checking supplies and peered at Rachel over her glasses . |
| 26 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 27 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 28 | A naked man was going crackers and had to be dealt with . |
| 29 | I was wearing dresses that showed more than she ever would dare , before she was born . |
| 30 | but I was getting bacteria and germ , you know , |