Example sentences of "[pron] were putting [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V .
2 Eliot , as was to be expected , was particularly interested in the kind of propaganda we were putting out to Germany and Italy : for the propaganda war had already begun and was intensifying .
3 She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside .
4 They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front .
5 so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera .
6 That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ?
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