Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students , whose actions were condemned by the Mozambican government , were demanding that their bursaries be paid to them in US dollars . |
| 2 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 3 | Once again the movies were proving that they had their own version of what was real . |
| 4 | If he was insincere in this , it is none the less ironic that in 1980 , when many within the Church of England were suggesting that it would be a more effective body if it were disestablished , his name should have been reintroduced into the Prayer Book as a martyr for the cause of Establishment . |
| 5 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 6 | ‘ When Jones sat on the bench on Saturday in the Test we were praying that he did not have to come on . |
| 7 | ‘ When Jones sat on the bench on Saturday in the Test we were praying that he did not have to come on . |
| 8 | Matza would clearly be wrong , on the other hand , if he were implying that it was inherently impossible for a corrective stance to acknowledge the ‘ patent tenability and durability of deviant enterprise ’ . |
| 9 | By Sept. 27 there were reports that the Iraqi authorities , who had introduced rationing at the beginning of the month , were warning that they would not be able to guarantee food supplies for foreigners beyond the end of September , but Iraq stated on Sept. 29 that there were " no plans to deprive foreign nationals of ration coupons " . |
| 10 | We felt that erm Trust Law had worked effectively erm you know over the years erm w we were happy with the extra powers that the er committee were recommending and the extra precautions that the committee were recommending that we brought in , but erm we would be happy with that backup to continue with the Trust Law . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'll come back , ’ I said comfortingly to the girls , who were lamenting that they had forgotten to bring a camera . |
| 12 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 13 | By the mid 1960s , only four per cent were reporting that they might be willing once again to vote for someone like Hitler . |
| 14 | I have already referred to the fact that the need to move the children had been precipitated by the announcement by the friends of the family with whom the children were staying that they could not keep the children any longer . |
| 15 | It was over , and some were complaining that they had missed it . |
| 16 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 17 | I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go . |
| 18 | It 's ironical that only last week the National Association of Private Residential Homes were saying that they will be going bust as a result of inadequate funding . |
| 19 | open day Margaret , we were saying that we er we should really put the notices up asking for donations for the tombola . |
| 20 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 21 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 22 | a London colloquialism has been used , Napier were saying that we 're doing the tutoring we would be happy to set the exam paper but with say |
| 23 | We were saying that we though Miss looked like her . |
| 24 | You want me to disrupt my harvest and put my daughter in danger — and yet , according to Keith , the terrorists in your house were saying that their deadline was Friday . |
| 25 | decorators and they were saying that their plumbers they charge a hundred pound a day ! |
| 26 | And then the other day you were saying that it 's nice to have someone drop in |
| 27 | you you talk er you know , when you were saying that you 'd erm you 'd sold an endless succession of of things , wh wh when you bought things , er you know when when you were married , it was there always that element in it that it was here for a just |
| 28 | And they were saying that you do n't give , the local erm MP was saying you know people just give their kids up and walk away . |
| 29 | Darren said you know the girls in the were saying that you were n't well , how was you and one of these days . |
| 30 | ‘ You were saying that he has written a wonderful book — and that it 's going to be published ? ’ |