Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 2 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 3 | We all groaned a bit and snivelled like kids , and we were putting it on , but we were only putting it on because underneath we did feel sad seeing our names rubbed out . |
| 4 | Kate found it hard to avoid hearing about him ; he seemed daily to be permeating her senses almost as if he were personally hounding her even though she accepted that had to be crazy thinking on her part . |
| 5 | He prowled over to the far side of the kitchen , then slammed down a couple of plates , as if he were suddenly finding it very hard to control his own temper . |
| 6 | ‘ They had 95 per cent of the play , we were just hoofing it anywhere , ’ insists self-effacing supremo Graham Bond . |
| 7 | where he 'd be , and they were just wheeling him down , him crying |
| 8 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 9 | Briseno stated : " It looked like they were just hitting him everywhere . |
| 10 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 11 | They were just tearing him apart — really eating into him . ’ |
| 12 | He hated the way people were always ringing her up , and she was always saying , ‘ How lovely ! ’ and ‘ I 'll be there by two , I promise , darling . ’ |
| 13 | Her parents were always telling her off for going on about things being boring . |
| 14 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 15 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 16 | The members of Parliament said it was a scandal ; they were still debating it long after the last vulture took his last victim . |
| 17 | He drew his head back , but his arms were still holding her tight . |
| 18 | Most houses simply refused to buy any grapes , even though the growers were practically giving them away . |
| 19 | The trouble was that a number of the birds were inside now and the constables , country boys , were conscientiously taking them out one by one before feeling around inside . |
| 20 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 21 | Just as her own concerns were now absorbing her fully , the desire to see Luke , to be in his arms again paramount , the need to end their relationship ignored for the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ For some reason rooms were discounted from low-season rate to the point where we were virtually giving them away in a definite shoulder season . |
| 23 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |