Example sentences of "[was/were] saying [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these governments , despite what they were saying or had said previously in public , considered the abduction of their citizens as a political act and were negotiating over it . |
| 2 | Despite this , Tommy seemed to know how to get more beer per penny out of any landlord than Charlie had ever dreamed possible , even when he could n't understand what they were saying or make himself understood . |
| 3 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 4 | She knew what they were saying and realized she could come to church no more . |
| 5 | Oh there 's some on there if you wan na er Joyce was saying that get vast material |
| 6 | Yeah see that 's a problem because that 's like Greatley Greatley and Amport cos an an , Anne was saying that wanted one in that lot which is a similar , but she could n't have one . |
| 7 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 8 | I scarcely knew what I was saying or doing . |
| 9 | He realised what he was saying and glanced at Delia Sutherland . |
| 10 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 11 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 12 | After five minutes , Simon attended to what she was saying and assumed a look of astuteness . |