Example sentences of "[adv] they were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we were halfway down they were applauding like mad . |
| 2 | Now they were heading at top speed towards treacherous , shifting , waterlogged marsh ! |
| 3 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 5 | Instead they were staring with considerable fascination at a fellow traveller who was reclining , fortunately with his back turned , a few seats down from them . |
| 6 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |