Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 2 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 3 | People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave . |
| 4 | It 's a mystery to , you know , we were just sitting and he walked up and he went Andy , you 're a fucking cunt ! |
| 5 | Me and Scott were just playing and I went |
| 6 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 7 | Drivers were asked to give the risk rating immediately they heard the tone and it was emphasized that this rating should be one of what they were already feeling when they heard the tone rather than a subsequent assessment of the risk present . |
| 8 | Such thoughts were always unsettling and she refused to spoil a perfect summer morning by dwelling on the matter now . |
| 9 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 10 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 11 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 12 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 13 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 14 | Well they were still working when we left . |
| 15 | Steve and the others were still working and I began getting the meal ready . |
| 16 | We were still laughing when we took more food out to the others . |
| 17 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 18 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 19 | My nerves were really jangling when we got to the 17th , the Road Hole . |
| 20 | Housewives were out shopping and he saw Sarah , a scarf over her head , wearing an old grey top-coat , carrying a shopping bag in one hand and clutching a large , black handbag with brass fastenings in the other . |
| 21 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 22 | Anyway , I 'm here now and I 'll say this much , Harry , old chap , you were n't exaggerating when you said it was beautiful … and everything so vast , so spacious . ’ |
| 23 | She were n't waiting when I knew her . |
| 24 | They were endlessly busy when they were n't praying and I remembered their surroundings as always faintly shining . |
| 25 | If they were n't carrying when they walked in there , they will be now . |
| 26 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 27 | I should have been here to meet you , but you were late arriving and I had an appointment in the village . ’ |
| 28 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |