Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 2 | Events were shaping up faster and worse than I could have expected . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , both sides were bringing up more and more artillery pieces and vast numbers of shells to feed them : the pattern of Verdun was repeating itself . |
| 4 | ‘ If they were driving more slowly and carefully then the child might have escaped and that 's what matters . ’ |
| 5 | Wedges of red-sashed men were driving in up and down the catwalk , cutting the defenders off into pockets . |
| 6 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 7 | We were walking downhill now and reached the shingle to head north for the Cock of Arran . |
| 8 | Drawn by light-stepping ponies , lowing bullocks , sweating , yellow-skinned men or smoking petrol and steam engines , unending processions of carriages , carts , rickshaws , trams , trains , cars , and motor buses were plying urgently back and forth across the drab plain of treeless rice fields , hurrying to complete their business before the heat of noon drove their passengers to seek shelter and shade . |
| 9 | Things were beginning to change , however , it was stated , but whether the changes were happening fast enough or on a scale appropriate to the scale of the problems was still not clear . |
| 10 | Things were happening too easily and it made her nervous , even though he was Mrs Bradford 's brother . |
| 11 | The big blue eyes were brimming over again and he sat beside her and put one arm around her . |
| 12 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 13 | They were climbing quite rapidly and soon Maggie 's eyes took on a very troubled look . |
| 14 | True , his western armies were pushing forward rapidly as planned , but danger lay even in this , for the troops were becoming exhausted and famished as they moved far ahead of their supply trains . |
| 15 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 17 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 18 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures . |
| 20 | These trees , in full sunlight , were growing more vigorously than the forest trees and produced enough pods to make our life easier . |
| 21 | Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed . |
| 22 | But their nerves were twitching early on as Albania cut loose with fast , lively football . |
| 23 | The illustrations were going unexpectedly well and the emotional ups and downs of yesterday were starting to fade from her memory . |
| 24 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 25 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 26 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |
| 27 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 28 | It caught me with my hand I were going so well and all of a sudden |
| 29 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 30 | But I do n't mind getting in in the family , but you I always remember , when David was growing up , he was about seventeen or eighteen , his friends came round , they were going out somewhere and grandma was there and she said to , er to us in front of erm David 's friends oh is n't he a pretty boy ! |