Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 2 | Drivers were asked to give the risk rating immediately they heard the tone and it was emphasized that this rating should be one of what they were already feeling when they heard the tone rather than a subsequent assessment of the risk present . |
| 3 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 4 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 6 | If they were n't carrying when they walked in there , they will be now . |
| 7 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |