Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And there I was wondering why you were smelling like a — like a … ’ |
| 2 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 3 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 4 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 5 | Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street . |
| 6 | The Guildsmen were wading through the audience , overturning benches and chasing children away with the backs of their hands . |
| 7 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 8 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 9 | Wives were assisting with the lambing , looking after calves , and most probably administering drugs to young stock when needed . |
| 10 | Intercontinent were assisting in the formation of Hindustan Aircraft in India , and an assembly line for the PC-5A was set-up there . |
| 11 | They were assisting in the birth of government as the modem world has known it . |
| 12 | Inflation prospects were encouraging following the fall in the headline and underlying rate , which excludes mortgage rates , in April . |
| 13 | Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company . |
| 14 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 15 | By the second century B.C. they were experimenting with a volcanic earth found near Vesuvius and named pozzolana after the town of Pozzuoli there . |
| 16 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 17 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 18 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 19 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 20 | And , according to the radio , doves were cooing in the Kremlin . |
| 21 | One dull afternoon , on the last day of October , he and Willie were kneeling on the window ledge in the sitting room of the Littles ' cottage . |
| 22 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 23 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 24 | By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin . |
| 25 | She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood . |
| 26 | Artemis had sometimes taken this run when out with her cowardly cousins , although she would always jump the open ditch and hedge while her cousins were fumbling with the gate . |
| 27 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 28 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 29 | Believing Gorbachev 's policies were deviating from a number of fundamental Marxist principles , a group of members formed the Marxist Platform of the CPSU shortly before the selection of delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU . |
| 30 | Her hands were sticking to the wheel . |