Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | In the third division , Hereford United were seeing stars at Gillingham after letting in 2 early goals . |
| 3 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 4 | ‘ They were producing plans for expansion , Ed said . |
| 5 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 6 | They were kneeling back to back , their buttocks touching , and each with one end of the double-headed dildo still embedded securely in her gaping twat . |
| 7 | Although anti-nuclear protests were gathering strength in Britain at this time , the Labour front-bench in Parliament was strengthened by the switch of the charismatic Aneurin Bevan from unilateral nuclear disarmament to the view that the British bomb would enhance national influence in any disarmament talks . |
| 8 | At this stage the media hounds were sniffing News on Sunday for signs of Loony or Hard Left activity . |
| 9 | Two youths were helping police with inquiries . |
| 10 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 11 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 12 | In the coconut groves by the beach scores of men were building prahus from scratch , some over 150 feet long . |
| 13 | The Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , reported that about 5,000 students were building barricades of garbage cans in front of the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 14 | Such was the state of concern at the Midlands plants that conveners and local members of Parliament were demanding intervention at Government level . |
| 15 | Moreover , the use of recall as a measure of memory may have meant that subjects were using thoughts about risk as a retrieval cue , indeed they may have assumed that it was this information that the experimenter was most interested in . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 18 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 19 | Gooch even turned to the rarely-seen legspin of Robin Smith either side of lunch as England strained for the breakthrough , but Wright and Jones were proving models of self-denial . |
| 20 | Soon the sisters were singing duets at Boothville hospital for unmarried mothers , and the local corps . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 25 | When I mentioned this profligacy to her one day as we were painting side by side , she dismissed me , saying , ‘ When we run out of money I 'll get us some more . ’ |
| 26 | The next fifteen or so miles were easier , not so much because it was daylight but because , once past that towering headland , they were rowing west by north and the wind and tide were now behind them . |
| 27 | Up to 1988 life assurance companies were gaining ground on pension funds , with individual life assurance premiums doubling their share of the personal savings market to 1988 . |
| 28 | There are some references to other forms of metal-working in the country ; most notably in the early sixteenth century the areas around Dudley and Birmingham in the Midlands , were becoming centres of ironwork , and there were further developments in such manufacturing at Sheffield where its history goes back further . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | All around him people were hurling possessions from windows and dragging horses from smoking stables . |