Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] they were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAP trio Salt N' Pepa are fuming after they were gazumped by a New York property speculator . |
| 2 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 3 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 4 | When they were prattling while they were prattling . |
| 5 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 6 | They knew what they were doing and they were getting hits from it , whereas we are an experimental albums band . ’ |
| 7 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 8 | He and his 13 year old friend Andre Leota were playing when they were assaulted by three men . |
| 9 | Mainly what the sect vans were carrying when they were raided by the police . |
| 10 | They barely reached it , for the seas had got up and the waterlogged canoe was foundering as they were hauled to safety . |
| 11 | And I can see this er this woman with her three children go off to the workhouse and er they was crying but they were waving and then all the neighbours was out waving to them . |
| 12 | An orchestra was playing and they were served tea . |