Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new owner — a man on his own , gossip said , a wealthy man-was plainly moving in . |
| 2 | But you were presumably feeling not well before then ? |
| 3 | But the new two-axle units were actually responsible for part of the upsurge in traffic on their routes and were certainly no worse than the buses with which they were successfully competing . |
| 4 | The Japanese were successfully entering into many of the most sensitive markets in the EC ( e.g. cars , consumer electronic equipment , computing equipment ) , and the NICs were becoming an increasing threat to many of the industries of the member states . |
| 5 | What could you measure to show that change was occurring ( ie how could you ‘ measure ’ something or things to determine whether you were successfully meeting the aims/goals you listed for Question 1 ? |
| 6 | In Eastern Europe Yugoslavia had long since broken free of Soviet domination and by the mid-1960s other countries , most notably Romania , were successfully showing independence in their foreign policy . |
| 7 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 8 | I do n't know you were in here and I were in there , in your sitting room , she were happy to make tea , she were right working |
| 9 | And we were rather thinking that might be looking for another job very soon . |
| 10 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 11 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 12 | Both men were instinctively curbing their horses . |
| 13 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 14 | That started because I think Charles saw that they were eventually going had to give way to twenty additional fire fighters and they were looking for safety within the service . |
| 15 | Although the workers were given written instructions as to their role when they began their work with a client , this role always expanded so that they were eventually performing several functions for the client . |
| 16 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 17 | Others were of the view that the police were properly protecting working miners and ensuring their freedom of passage . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger . |
| 19 | They had driven to the edge of the city , into the brittle mauve of dusk , lights starting up in buildings everywhere as if some vast signal beacon were slowly igniting . |
| 20 | It rarely blinked , but sometimes the lids would close and then reopen , as if consciousness were slowly drifting away . |
| 21 | Ruth looked like a radish , as if her blood were slowly boiling . |
| 22 | Although so little was heard from them , those who kept tabs on them were convinced that they were slowly fading away . |
| 23 | The advent of Stanier , and his successors locomotives designs , with their outside motion and labour saving examples were slowly replacing the older LNW engines along the coast . |
| 24 | They were slowly trying to destroy him . |
| 25 | Having explained that the first mistake was made at 11 am Tuesday , 8 October , he goes on to say : ‘ At 2.15 am , Wednesday the 9th , they discovered [ the thermocouples ] were slowly rising . |
| 26 | Corbett struggled to his feet and stared around the hall where the rest of the sleepers there were slowly rising to their feet , some nursing sore heads , others bawling for wine and food . |
| 27 | What Myeloski did n't tell Duncan was that things were slowly beginning to take shape in his mind . |
| 28 | It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire . |
| 29 | Even his strong hands holding hers captive were n't hurting ; on the contrary , even that manacle was exciting because his thumbs were slowly stroking the insides of her wrists , sending shafts of awareness along her arms to her body , which was growing warm , soft , as though inviting his to sink further against her , into her … |
| 30 | And all the time , like pipes dripping , weakening and preparing to burst in the attic , around the house hearts were slowly breaking while nothing was being said . |