Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
| 2 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 3 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 4 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 5 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 6 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 7 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 8 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 9 | His feet were resting comfortably on the ship 's control panel . |
| 10 | Their hands were resting lightly on the wizard 's shoulders . |
| 11 | Pink bolts were rattling randomly about the area . |
| 12 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 13 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 14 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 15 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 16 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 17 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 18 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 19 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
| 20 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 21 | Being anchor man , the one at the back of the rope , and because we were walking directly into the sun , I delighted in the shadows of those in front . |
| 22 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 23 | Children were splashing in the beck , their cries echoing from the cove face , a courting couple were doing what courting couples have done since time immemorial , oblivious to the world and its wife passing by , and old ladies on a coach trip from Bradford were walking gently through the sunny afternoon , all grey hair , handbags and giggles . |
| 24 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 25 | In the dream she and her father were walking together through the shrubbery . |
| 26 | She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner . |
| 27 | They were walking home along the river bank . |
| 28 | The guests were crowding slowly past the wedded couple , kissing them , shaking their hands . |
| 29 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |
| 30 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |