Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started the bike , eased it forwards and suddenly they were tilting over as they went round the corner . |
| 2 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 3 | The car picks up speed very quickly in the lower gears thanks to a 16-valve turbo engine and soon we were finding out how to negotiate winding country lanes at 60 . |
| 4 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 5 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 6 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 7 | And like we were coming down and |
| 8 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 9 | Now and then we were sent out of our normal patrol area on special operations . |
| 10 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 11 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 12 | It was an uneventful drive to Ravens ' Bridge , past the steamer pier and the small wooden jetties before turning sharply to cross over a shallow , slow-moving stream ; a final view of the calm and sparkling waters of the lake and then they were swinging around into the village 's centre — a wide area off the road painted into parking spaces , a couple of tea rooms , several small hotels and a marine shop with a yard for pleasure boats alongside . |
| 13 | And the eyes went up and down and then they were going up and down . |
| 14 | And they 'd all been in the run , so they all came in for lunch , and they , you know , it 's like twenty bar meals , and then they were coming up to drink , to order drinks , they were doing like ten drinks at a time . |
| 15 | And then they were giving up and going to America , they were going They had a sister . |
| 16 | She said I could and then she were messing about you see . |
| 17 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |
| 18 | You 'd get a message from the R T O the er Railway Transport Office to say supply three hundred and sixty cups of tea at such and such a time and then of course the troops would the train would start , the troops pour out and pour into our place and there we were dashing around . |