Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Luke were grooming her , she lashed out if he brushed her belly or round her ears , and went for anyone else who came near her . |
| 2 | Well that 's , that 's what I meant if we were make them |
| 3 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 4 | That 's because we were porting it |
| 5 | The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back . |
| 6 | If they were sacked they stood to lose old-age and long-service premiums . |
| 7 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 8 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 9 | The men were enjoying them : |
| 10 | I would not have known that children who said they enjoyed it , were enjoying it |
| 11 | And er it was lovely and we were enjoying it until I pulled out the whole chicken 's head . |
| 12 | But , even allowing for that , Charles reckoned they were enjoying it . |
| 13 | ‘ I assumed you were enjoying it , señorita . ’ |
| 14 | He began toying with a beermat while Rachel , emboldened by his leading questions about her , went on , ‘ May one ask why , if you were enjoying it out there as much as you say you were ? ’ |
| 15 | whatever well the dance routine and they smiled and looked as though they were enjoying it . |
| 16 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 17 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 18 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 19 | Maybe people were seeing me as something other than what I wanted to be naturally . |
| 20 | ‘ You did n't tell him you were seeing me , did you ? ’ |
| 21 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 22 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 23 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 24 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 25 | Chebrikov was particularly scathing about the ‘ informal groups ’ that had been attracting public attention , warning that ‘ extremist elements ’ had worked their way into the leaderships of some of them and that they were encouraging them to engage in actions ‘ objectively against the interests of our society ’ . |
| 26 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |
| 27 | LIBERTAS software for full computer management of the library 's resources was also introduced , and the first modules , dealing with catalogues , were completed they make possible fast retrieval of information on published literature . |
| 28 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 29 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 30 | A large number of rather similar ‘ irregular issues ’ are known and it is suggested that one or more private ‘ mints ’ were producing them . |