Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 2 | According to Scott , by 1909 the top 100 manufacturing companies were producing 15% of total output , and by 1930 26% . |
| 3 | Kuwait and Iraq together contain 29% of the Gulf 's oil reserves and , up to 1990 , were producing 27% of the Gulf 's total output . |
| 4 | Well you see you were trusting people . |
| 5 | You were trusting people to pay it if you had a black book . |
| 6 | They were shearing sheep with it ! |
| 7 | By 1952 they were contributing $400000000 a year and John Foster Dulles gave enthusiastic support as part of his anti-Communist crusade . |
| 8 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 9 | Costs rose quickly until renovations were averaging £15,996 per flat . |
| 10 | Management were meeting staff this afternoon to reveal details of the closure plan , which would mean job losses . |
| 11 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 12 | Last year 1,000 people attended the three-day festival and on the Friday and Saturday nights Arts Centre staff were turning people away by 8.15pm . |
| 13 | It was estimated that families in Easthall were paying £1 million between them each year heating the sky above Glasgow because as soon as they turned on the heat , it went straight out their windows and walls . |
| 14 | But Sarah and Mary were growing old ; by May 1855 Badcox Lane Chapel was taking upon itself the responsibility of arranging home visits to Mary , who was sick with diarrhoea , and were paying 1s. per month to help her out . |
| 15 | If you were getting £8 , you 'd go at £4 . |
| 16 | Mary Woodend , Margaret Tindal , June Smith and Hannah Hodgson were probably older girls and were getting 1½d. a barrow load ; they were probably breaking lumps or cobbling , though the last two earned only 1/9 each in July of 1843 . |
| 17 | In those days , I think the Home Office and the Foreign Office were full up and we were getting people from universities and some of them were pretty useless , heads full of all sorts of knowledge but no common sense . |
| 18 | But if I remember correctly on one of the progr on television going back sort of two three months ago , one of the firms , and I think it was an electrical firm , was working a bit of a swift one erm they were getting people to sign a document which purported I think to be erm l l loaning money , hire agreement . |
| 19 | And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road . |
| 20 | By 1929 , 5% of the American population were getting 33% of all personal income . |
| 21 | My waiters were getting $60 a day tips and driving round in Porsches . ’ |
| 22 | Preparations for multiparty democratic elections , due on Sept. 29 and 30 [ see p. 38851 ] , were marred by opposition allegations that government officials in predominantly anti-MPLA-PT areas were discouraging people from participating . |
| 23 | We phoned some of the major insurance companies to see what their policies were concerning fish tanks . |
| 24 | Etc , I regret to say , were sniping aircraft from Vichy , France , who flew over the channel , sometimes as low as twenty to thirty feet above the waves and were trigger happy . |
| 25 | By 1760 – 5 these two were providing £3 million out of £4.8 million , and by 1800 £4.6 million out of £11 million . |
| 26 | Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said South Tees acute hospitals were providing 30pc more treatments than ten years ago , whilst waiting lists had fallen from over 6,000 to approximately 4,000 in the same period . |
| 27 | Last summer , before the lira was devalued , traders were buying lira puts at prices well below the currency 's floor against the D-mark . |
| 28 | and then someone said er they were saying people like er Peter Stringfellow |
| 29 | Does he remember the period after 1985 when he came to the Dispatch Box and abolished the death grant and took away maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds , while all the time pensioners were losing £14 a week ? |
| 30 | Seven years ago the yards were losing £45 million a year . |