Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , managing director of London 's The Gym at The Sanctuary , was amazed to find that many of the callers were overweight because they were eating all the wrong things . |
| 2 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 3 | And you were dredging all the while ? |
| 4 | In the parade room were all the clothes , and the mothers were stripping all the kids naked and fitting them out — the place stunk with corduroy trousers . |
| 5 | A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall . |
| 6 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 7 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 8 | We were going all the way along Pond Street . |
| 9 | Erm the salary part was good and you , you were getting all the other bits and pieces that went on , you got his basic salary and you started talking about other benefits and you were exploring those when we er , when we came to the , to the end . |
| 10 | Now spring had sprung and the evenings were getting lighter the baths were hopelessly crowded after school hours . |
| 11 | But , like he says , they were refurbishing all the places there . |
| 12 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy of Barnard Castle police said video cameras were recording all the time at Barnard Castle Bridge over the River Tees . |
| 13 | Well the erm the girls were doing all the the wives were doing all the food parcels every week . |
| 14 | Well the erm the girls were doing all the the wives were doing all the food parcels every week . |
| 15 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 16 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 18 | we were sashaying all the way to Largs |
| 19 | Events there were taking much the same course as they had in Portugal , and as Mark had resolved that problem in double quick time , he was considered the best man to deal with this new problem situation . |
| 20 | He thought that either the military were arresting all the leading dissidents and had cut his communication links with the outside world , or the rebels had succeeded in crippling the vidphone network . |
| 21 | The total of 188 cases of sexual assault means that , if you were reading all the newspapers in the study , you would have at least one new case of sexual assault , usually by an unknown assailant , to read about every other day . |
| 22 | For the Nationalists , it was an offensive war of attrition to eradicate every last vestige of liberal democracy , in which they were winning all the way . |
| 23 | Oh well it was going when I was , you were talking all the way back from the squash club |
| 24 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 25 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 26 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 27 | The reformers consistently stressed the need to remember that , whilst the liberalising tendencies of the proposals were making all the headlines , a set of controls was also included which was an essential part of the package . |
| 28 | They were discussing all the subjects usually kept under the pillow . |
| 29 | ‘ But they were quarrelling all the time ! ’ |
| 30 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |