Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 2 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 3 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 4 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 5 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 6 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 7 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 8 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 9 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 10 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 11 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 13 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 14 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 15 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 19 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 20 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 21 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 22 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 23 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 24 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 25 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 26 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 27 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 28 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 29 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 30 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |