Example sentences of "[v-ing] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 2 | A PENSIONER was recovering at home yesterday after a frightening experience in which the car he was driving was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Whitby . |
| 3 | The one she insisted on inspecting was at the back . |
| 4 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 5 | Sir Patrick Wright ( Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ) , who had the honour of being received by Their Royal Highnesses , was present and the Gentlemen of the Household in Waiting were in attendance . |
| 6 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 7 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 8 | By the late 1920s cattle stealing was of little concern to the authorities , but it underwent a revival with the onset of the depression , and received further impetus in 1936 when various regulations designed to control the movement and sale of cattle were lifted . |
| 9 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 10 | The throb his touch was arousing was like concussion blows vibrating through her veins . |
| 11 | The direction in which opinion was moving was toward the left of the political spectrum . |
| 12 | The dress Bella was wearing was of a deep and vivid shade of blue , cladding a figure that was anything but fat . |
| 13 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 14 | what it , what it was saying was in effect that the woman er so long as she 's free and and open sexually then she can have whatever she wants . |
| 15 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 16 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 17 | It was , in fact , just a peculiarly rich and extended example , and the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 18 | And the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 19 | cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress . |
| 20 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |
| 21 | A MAN was killed yesterday when the van he was travelling was in collision with another car near Darlington . |
| 22 | Strengthening was by an armoured shield of 7.6mm iron wire and it established the standard for undersea cable design for years to come . |
| 23 | Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 . |
| 24 | In steam but not running was ex WD 600 ‘ Gordon ’ ( a massive 2-10-0 ) . |
| 25 | Going past the stands for the first time , the Unwins ' Upper Gumtree still showed in front but with Premiere almost alongside ; pampering was on the inside tugging his jockey 's arms out . |
| 26 | They were also in a test situation , and were aware that the passages they were reading were to be followed by questions . |
| 27 | If taking were to be kept as the basis of the offence , it would be necessary to create a separate offence of dishonest retention or disposal in order to deal with these cases . |
| 28 | Hari sighed and returned to her task , the shoes she was making were for Emily Grenfell . |
| 29 | Especially if the bombs — or missiles — that plane was carrying were of the nuclear variety . |
| 30 | Dalian Atkinson and Yorke all playing were of course different class |