Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 2 | A hundred yards away across the rain-drowned compound Dong and Hoc were weeping openly as they embraced their father in the blackness of their leaking barrack hut . |
| 3 | ‘ You and Salvo were talking just before I came out to breakfast . |
| 4 | The match was Halling Institute v Snodland , and was decided by the first innings Snodland scoring 77 and Halling 49 , Halling were playing valiantly when stumps were drawn at 6.30 . " |
| 5 | yeah cos Derek were going backwards when we went round the corner were n't we ? |
| 6 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 7 | ‘ I daresay he and Bill were larking about and the dog thought he 'd join in . ’ |
| 8 | Exact beginnings are not clearly known but by the mid-thirteenth century Lübeck and Hamburg in Germany were co-operating together and soon other German towns were joining : Lüneburg , Wismar , Stralsund , Soest and Dortmund . |
| 9 | Local people at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire were celebrating today after Stroud Council extended a conservation area to include the building , the George Hotel . |
| 10 | Labit and Sebastian Morizot were backing up and , when the sortie was checked , the ball was flipped out to Laurent Arbo who went over in the corner . |
| 11 | It was found in 1902 that perhaps 50,000 children in England and Wales were working more than 20 hours a week in addition to 27½ hours at school , some of them working between 30 and 50 hours a week . |