Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 2 | His legs were trembling so that his hands would n't keep still . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 4 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 5 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 6 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 8 | We were saying today that the was saying today that |
| 9 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 10 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 11 | " For God 's sake , Maureen , you were yelling yesterday that you could n't be bothered with it . |
| 12 | It should be noted that this is not an outright refutation of Young and Willmott 's position as outlined at the beginning of this section , for they were arguing only that there is a tendency towards a less-gender-segregated division of labour . |
| 13 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |