Example sentences of "[v-ing] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I were laughing were n't I ? |
| 2 | It does raise a very important matter because in the B C C I inquiry , it was quite obvious er that parts of Price Waterhouse were n't fully aware of what other parts of Pri Price Waterhouse were doing and indeed worse than that and in fairness to Price Waterhouse , some of the regulators in different parts of the world did n't know what each other w w were doing and the only people that did know what was happening were the principals behind B C C I who exploited that situation . |
| 3 | When , for example , I discovered that 90 per cent of those attending a workshop did not become Moonies , it seemed clear that any brainwashing techniques that the movement was employing were , to say the least , not very efficient . |
| 4 | Also appearing were Nicholas Frank McClelland , Daneshill Road , Coleraine ; Gary William McCauley , Kinvara Park , Coleraine and Michael O'Donovan , Brook Street , Coleraine . |
| 5 | You were driving were you ? |
| 6 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 7 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 8 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 9 | Yes , because we were on route for doggy walking were n't we ? |
| 10 | She had thought she loved him , and that he loved her , but now she wondered whether the only people they were capable of loving were themselves . |
| 11 | Second , coordinators as a group were acutely conscious of the way their own success depended in large part upon how they and the practices they were promoting were regarded by existing staff in the schools where they were placed . |
| 12 | Routine household chores like washing cleaning cooking sewing and mending were often done by women and girls employed as resident domestic servants . |
| 13 | The songs he was writing were very death-oriented . |
| 14 | The amount of , intensity and direction of pushing were all wrong with the epidural . |
| 15 | The two IT subject areas which had the highest proportion of SERC-funded students in employment and the lowest levels seeking were micro-electronics and the IKBS/MMI/AI group . |
| 16 | Disturbances induced by swallowing were edited from the UOS pressure tracing by excluding pressures from four seconds before to six seconds after swallows . |
| 17 | It was the year of the first World Championships , and many of the big names in sprinting were biding their time . |
| 18 | Would n't both sexes miss it , if flirting were outlawed ? |
| 19 | Those groups which were able to continue operating were restricted in their mobility and contacts . |
| 20 | Broad justifications for petitioning were as familiar to both politicians and abolitionists as the sectional interest justifications of the petitions on economic and commercial issues in the 1780s which Drescher stresses because of their contrast with the humanitarian and general interest grounds of the anti-slave trade petitions of 1788 . |
| 21 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 22 | At that time classical architecture was largely confined to the world of country-house building , and the majority of architects exhibiting were older men . |
| 23 | Its thoughts on squatting were published in a paper earlier this year : it was in favour of making squatting a criminal offence . |
| 24 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |
| 25 | We were on about going were n't we ? |
| 26 | Database management , statistical analysis , wordprocessing were far more fruitful used as generic resources than programs teaching curriculum-specific information and ideas . |
| 27 | Last summer , the crew 's appetites for racing were whetted by smaller one-design racing when 16 Sigma 33s were chartered from Britannia Sailing in Southampton . |
| 28 | Sir Patrick Wright ( Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ) , who had the honour of being received by Their Royal Highnesses , was present and the Gentlemen of the Household in Waiting were in attendance . |
| 29 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 30 | Possibilities remaining were pink , lime green , orange and mauve . |