Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember at the announcement of last year 's results we erm we mentioned that we were concentrating on four themes one 's cost reduction er driving for cash erm , improving our market share and investing for the future . |
| 2 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 3 | As they drew near their prey , the sailors realized that they were dealing with something much more fierce than any whale . |
| 4 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 5 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 6 | Then he realised that they were referring to their own attack on him . |
| 7 | Benny realised that there were going to be a great many areas where she would be at a loss . |
| 8 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 9 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 10 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 11 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 12 | Although ten full minutes passed after leaving his party swigging juice happily and pointing at the loch , a casual glance backwards revealed that they were gaining on us quickly . |
| 13 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 14 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 15 | I have long thought that the hon. Gentleman imagined that we were living in Ethiopia , having listened to some of his speeches about the economy . |
| 16 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 17 | I also heard that you were selling to a surgeon from the hospital . ’ |
| 18 | It 's relevant perhaps to report hereof that John Dennis has done a very useful spreadsheet of erm video profitability on a erm video by video basis , which we have actually a sort of profit and loss account for every year it was produced , and that is going to become a quarterly erm document which we can look at erm and that that 's very useful to and we did actually at our meeting discussing that yesterday we decided that we were going to erm try to break down erm the sales of that into title by market , did n't we ? |
| 19 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 20 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 21 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 22 | Even in the smaller specific groups , women often felt that they were struggling against thinly-disguised misogyny . |
| 23 | Some felt that they were hurrying into an epoch of unprecedented enlightenment , in which better education and beneficent technology would ensure wealth and leisure for all . |
| 24 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 25 | By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano . |
| 26 | He pricked up his ears at one point for he knew that they were talking about him . |
| 27 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |
| 28 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 29 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 30 | I knew that you were talking to him about something |