Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 2 | Analysis of the gas in the balloon told the team how much oxygen the camels were using as they walked . |
| 3 | Once again the movies were proving that they had their own version of what was real . |
| 4 | Even lightly-oiled birds were dying as they ingested oil while attempting to preen themselves clean . |
| 5 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |
| 6 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |
| 7 | But the dark grey eyes were smouldering as they dropped briefly from the stormy curve of her mouth to her body , scantily clad in garments that were casual in the extreme , her favourite faded denim shorts cut from an old pair of jeans , and the little white cotton bustier into which she had changed on her return from work , planning to spend the humid twilight time out on her balcony before preparing to attend a local record company 's promotion party . |
| 8 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 9 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 10 | The children were listening though they kept their eyes intently fixed on their school books . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'll come back , ’ I said comfortingly to the girls , who were lamenting that they had forgotten to bring a camera . |
| 12 | At the moment her eyes were coaxing as they turned on Alain , but when she had looked at Jenna there had been a coldness that was quickly hidden . |
| 13 | It was inevitable yesterday , as Gordon Brown gave his performance , that Labour 's backbenchers were wondering whether they had picked the right man . |
| 14 | Although bureau primarily exist to simply output your files direct to bromide or film most of them will make sure that the output is what you were expecting before they send it back . |
| 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 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 19 | I 'm sure Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolph did n't know what they were starting when they began making sports shoes in Germany in the Twenties . |
| 20 | The sun was throwing its last handfuls of sunlight into the sky and the gulls were crying as they circled around the school . |
| 21 | ‘ Shop girls were screaming and young mothers were crying as they ran up the street , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ They were crying because they knew friends and relatives were still in the area . ’ |
| 23 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 24 | And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it |
| 25 | she had no business to do it , she knew what she were doing and they had no business to do it . |
| 26 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 27 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |
| 28 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
| 29 | Father-of-two Steve said : ‘ I thought they were joking when they said I was not sufficiently disabled . ’ |
| 30 | A child was screaming in one of the flats , while two dogs were snarling as they fought in the wasteland beyond the apartment house . |