Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 2 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 3 | On this particular Friday I remembered that of course all the men were away shooting ISAAC or some other unlucky fellow . |
| 4 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 5 | Wilfred Harte , 65 , was enraged because they were always watching TV and running up big electricity bills , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 6 | ‘ They were always holding hands and he kissed her goodbye every day as she set off for work . ’ |
| 7 | side Christian circles must surely be deeply saddened by the large numbers of people who were once professing Christians but who now claim to have ‘ lost their faith ’ . |
| 8 | But they were still getting troops and bomb bombing raids ? |
| 9 | Aubrey and Cora-Beth had not long returned from a lengthy ride across the lush , undulating pastures and were still wearing jodhpurs and cool , open-necked shirts . |
| 10 | Mary Woodend , Margaret Tindal , June Smith and Hannah Hodgson were probably older girls and were getting 1½d. a barrow load ; they were probably breaking lumps or cobbling , though the last two earned only 1/9 each in July of 1843 . |
| 11 | In the exercise above , you were probably using simile and metaphor without realising it . |
| 12 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 13 | ‘ At that time you were habitually abusing drink and had a serious problem controlling your temper . |
| 14 | She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah 's friend Edie Meadows , who lived nearby , came in . |
| 15 | In Chicago 's Park Forest , where the modest houses cost $17,000 and the gray-flannel , or rather charcoal-suited , inhabitants were typically earning $6,000-$7,000 and were aged between twenty-five and thirty-five , the house agent 's advertisements stressed the feeling of ‘ belonging' : |
| 16 | More changes were now taking place and further pilots were rested . |
| 17 | Eye-witnesses claimed that troops of the elite Special Presidential Division used rifles , hot-water cannons , metal-tipped canes and tear gas to break up the crowd , many of whom were reportedly carrying rosaries and prayer books . |
| 18 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 19 | The youths were neither causing damage nor harm . |
| 20 | The club was launched in the spring by Dave Caul , the manager , along with Mike Knowler and Andy Carroll , who were previously spinning house and hip hop at The State in Liverpool . |
| 21 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 22 | The proportion of one-parent families living in poverty has increased since 1979 when 4 in 10 ( 42 per cent ) were either receiving sb or had incomes below the sb level . |