Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see that her hands were trembling faintly and remembered how that felt . |
| 2 | The ones who were looking at them were looking silently and glancing at their catalogues , and the rest were talking about other matters — mostly about where they had last met . |
| 3 | Nicandra shrank away — she was not at all courageous about horses , especially when they were fidgeting threateningly and blowing out through their noses at the same time . |
| 4 | You were supplementing rather than competing with other musical institutions and also indirectly benefiting other orchestras ? |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd got on the train at Morpeth and threw letters out at Darlington , saying we were going abroad and hoping somebody would pass the letters on . |
| 6 | At the age of 9 years , moved on , she was accompanied by her good friend , at their new school , Stonham Aspel. was more fortunate than some as the such-like of and : they were moving away and faced a strange school and strange people . |
| 7 | Instead they were marching backwards and pausing every few steps to fire steady and effective volleys at their French attackers . |
| 8 | Other people were coming upstairs and going straight in through the double doors marked Wards 3 and 4 . |
| 9 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 10 | At the top of the hill she was still in the forefront of matters with Run And Skip , but behind them Wayward Lad and Forgive 'N Forget were travelling smoothly and coming ever closer . |
| 11 | They were running harder and jumping taller after that . ’ |
| 12 | There was something funny about his tone of voice , almost as if he were asking rather than telling her . |
| 13 | The general restrictions imposed by incontinence ( among all those incontinent at any time ) were drinking less when going out ( 35% , 146 ) , making a conscious effort to find out where public toilets are ( 33% , 141 ) , going out less ( 15% , 65 ) , and restricting activities such as lifting ( 10% , 43 ) . |
| 14 | By the last decade of the eighteenth century there is evidence that the wider powers of the Church , even in rural England , were weakening rather than enhancing its spiritual authority . |
| 15 | Two were giggling together and seemed to know each other . |
| 16 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 17 | Like most new companies , they were overtrading alarmingly and expanding so fast that there was never adequate working capital . |
| 18 | ‘ Office girls were screaming uncontrollably and walking about in a daze with blood pouring from them , ’ said witness Helen Millican . |
| 19 | There was another commotion going on down on the slip ; the BMW people were gesticulating wildly and pointing at the tyres on one side of the trailer holding the big ski boat , which appeared to be listing slightly in that direction now . |
| 20 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 21 | It rejected evidence from government witnesses that present management arrangements were working well and has called for a radical reorganization . |
| 22 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |