Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 2 | The site needed to be shifted back to the regulation of life itself ; to the study of sound offspring and to the elimination of all those racial poisons ( alcoholism , venereal disease , feeble-mindedness ) which were leading to national degeneration . |
| 3 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 5 | You were referring to tw sorry you were referring to twelve hour flows which |
| 6 | " The man , " Katherine snapped , " what was the man doing while you were chatting to this woman ? " |
| 7 | I thought you said you were going to this match ! : - ) |
| 8 | No he thought of England as Magna Carta and Shakespeare and Churchill and Milton and the rule of law — a lot of great ideas and ideals that maybe you were going to just crumple and throw away . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They waited while you were talkin' to that guy , Ben . |
| 10 | It 's like other day , we were talking to this bloke like , and he were on about businesses , says you ca n't underst , oh he said something about finances , how difficult it is to get finance to start a business up and er , he said , I know , he said you ca n't me , he said . |
| 11 | Er , Dennis , who we were talking to last night , he says , you must be absolutely mental ! |
| 12 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 13 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 14 | They were looking to each other now anxiously . |
| 15 | It was as if they were clinging to each other , and they could n't let go . |
| 16 | ’ Nappy Wars ’ hit the headlines in January , when Peaudouce and Procter & Gamble announced they were moving to unbleached paper . |
| 17 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 18 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 19 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 20 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 21 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 22 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 23 | Did I tell you they were going to this hotel last week . |
| 24 | Some of them were whispering to each other . |
| 25 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |