Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pers pn] were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 2 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 3 | So than what we were talking about before you know ? |
| 4 | Did n't passion arise from a clash of extremes rather than the equal union she and Dmitri shared — and which they were expressing in this long , unmoving screw ? |
| 5 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 6 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 8 | ‘ Could you tell us where you were and what you were doing on those three days , please ? ’ he said , instead , levelly and she gave him another sideways , calculating look . |
| 9 | Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity . |
| 10 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 11 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 12 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 13 | But what they were asking for our support would we also write to the bus companies again and urge them instead of the buses going down Station Lane to come through our village . |
| 14 | Can you remember who spoke , as well as what they were talking about ? |
| 15 | There were very few firm commitments , the language is very much that of exploring , attempting , trying , hoping , when what we were looking for was a clear legislative framework . |