Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 2 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 3 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 4 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 5 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 6 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |
| 7 | Then they were gliding in to a crown of diamond lights and it was time . |
| 8 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 9 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 10 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 11 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 12 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 13 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 14 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 15 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 16 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 17 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 18 | They left things to us and we were rushing along on a supercharged train with no brakes . ’ |
| 19 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 20 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 21 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 22 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 23 | Sunk fathoms deep in thought once more , Luce took no heed of her surroundings , and only when they were pulling in to a private landing-stage overhung by green willows did she surface and realise the significance of the overnight bag . |
| 24 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 25 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 26 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 27 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 28 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 29 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 30 | The show continued until Christmas by which time Mr Smith and Doris realized they were facing up to a new way of life that would challenge them even more than the lean and difficult times of the thirties . |