Example sentences of "were [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were firing this damn thing , then they started banging us some , . |
| 2 | By 1865 , over 130 lace making factories were producing this delicate fabric on machines powered by the abundance of local coal . |
| 3 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 4 | But he said figures showed that international traffickers were targeting this country as never before , and ‘ it 's simply a question of time ’ before that fed through to the streets . |
| 5 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 6 | Suddenly , the dogs who were sniffing this exciting new country stopped ; ears raised , hair rising on their necks , they backed slowly towards John and Mary , then they howled and turned and ran back through the cutting , leaving John and Mary puzzled and a bit frightened . |
| 7 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 8 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 9 | We soon found that some of them were using this for various extra-curricular activities . |
| 10 | If someone said , Okay nitric acid and calcium hydroxide. as long as you were using this chart to work out which are single negative and double negative , what 's going to happen to that one ? |
| 11 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 12 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 13 | Now if you were using this this is what we would do . |
| 14 | Now if you were using this this is what we would do . |
| 15 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 16 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 17 | One of the answers which emerged was that they were eating diets high in natural fibre — while we , in the West , were stripping this cell-wall material from our day-to-day diet by refining our cereal foods and sugar . |
| 18 | it was him we were laughing this morning |
| 19 | ‘ The police were searching this flat for certain sorts of evidence . ’ |
| 20 | Ally and everybody , they were pushing this bloody mini up , is it yours ? |
| 21 | The centre would then , were promoting this activity as they were n't supported by Ottery town council . |
| 22 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 23 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 24 | Rapid acceleration gave pilots a false nose-up sense and they were correcting this with nose-down on the flying controls and flying into the ground . |
| 25 | And er we were passing this M |
| 26 | Suppose you sat on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and were investigating this monopolist . |
| 27 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 28 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 29 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 30 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |