Example sentences of "were saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 2 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 3 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 4 | That 's what they were saying and I fought them . ’ |
| 5 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 6 | ‘ As you were saying , Piper , if Jerry breaks through the Brigade 's positions , every bastard has had it , … maybe this is it coming up ? ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 8 | ‘ What was that you were saying about guests of the Government ? ’ he added dryly . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't hear what they were saying most of the time , ’ Omi said , as Erika ran her eye down the list of calls written in Omi 's shaky , old-fashioned script . |
| 10 | MINTO : Paxford and I were saying it was so clear . |
| 11 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 12 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 13 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 14 | He could hear them talking downstairs , not what they were saying , just their voices . |
| 15 | The television news-readers and the police and Hank — even Hank — were saying that Liam Shakespeare was shut up in his own home . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 18 | Remember what you were saying the other day . |
| 19 | In the light of such reflections of opinion , stereotype reports that people ‘ with insight ’ were saying the Führer could not be aware of the extent of the damage , otherwise more extensive rescue operations would have been deployed , or that people were looking ‘ full of trust ’ to the Führer and expressing the wish that he should stir them up and strengthen their faith , have a hollow ring to them . |
| 20 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 21 | as if we were saying : Sod you , I do n't care . |
| 22 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 23 | Then she seemed to grasp what they were saying . |
| 24 | But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less . |
| 25 | ‘ People were saying , ‘ You wo n't get anywhere playing like that ’ . |
| 26 | Remember , the terrorists were saying , that there can be no lasting peace if we are not involved . |
| 27 | It meant that philosophy was listening to what theologians were saying — even though it reserved the right to reject the theologian 's arguments . |
| 28 | ‘ We had a band chat and for ages we were saying we should not do merchandising at all , because it is a sign that you are a really big band and that you are trying to cash in . |
| 29 | The majors were quite polite and everything , it was n't like they were saying it was a load of rubbish . |
| 30 | It they were saying to me ‘ Korda , we 're pissed off with our records getting to 32 in the charts — what do we do about it ? ’ |