Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four weeks later The Smiths were bitterly complaining about Rough Trade 's handling of the record . |
| 2 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 3 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 4 | Mothers of Welsh infants of similar age were then recruited from the same areas of the city ; they were thus living in similar accommodation and served by the same health professionals . |
| 5 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 6 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 7 | Many colleges were already moving towards continuous assessment in their existing courses , so regular assessment for NVQ credits is unlikely to cause a major problem . |
| 8 | The trucks were meanwhile waiting in freezing weather and a UNHCR spokeswoman said the Serbs insisted they had orders from General Ratko Mladic , military chief of the rebel Serbs , to stop the trucks passing . |
| 9 | Cal and her mum were hardly speaking to each other . |
| 10 | They were always arguing with each other . |
| 11 | By now the two great flotillas — Jellicoe 's and Scheer 's — were rapidly closing with each other and the second major engagement of the action was about to open . |
| 12 | Indeed this is proven by the fact that some of the original 1 Squadron crews of 1950 were still flying in 2 Squadron Canberra medium bombers over South Vietnam over a decade later . |
| 13 | However , he added that investigations were still proceeding over another accident which happened 12 days before Mr Doncaster 's death . |
| 14 | The Bears were never headed but with just four heats left were still looking for extra inspiration . |
| 15 | But it told research ministers ( who were still meeting as New Scientist went to press on Tuesday ) that ‘ it is essential to take an immediate final decision on the future of the programme . ’ |
| 16 | The level of the early 1950s was abnormal in the sense that major trading nations were still recovering from internal war devastation . |
| 17 | The employers were about to remove theirs by what its American champions were to call ‘ scientific management ’ , but in our period they were still groping for this solution . |
| 18 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 19 | We were still climbing at full power and a touch of nose up trim enabled me to increase the rate of climb . |
| 20 | The defendants displayed outside their Oxford Street shop a sign reading ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ and were still trading from that shop 18 months later . |
| 21 | The two children were positively screaming by this time and shouted to their grandmother . |
| 22 | On the other hand they feared the working class who were also pushing for constitutional change against the aristocratic interest . |
| 23 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |
| 24 | Stations at Darlington , Newton Aycliffe , Fishburn and Chester-le Street were also operating with one vehicle and each were on call some in each other 's areas . |
| 25 | And it was just the the the people were often walking along this track , anyway there was a man , there was erm , was a , there was a man and a woman walked over to and walked back again at night , well in the the even , evening anyway . |
| 26 | The remainder , with the exception of the woman with the dislocated jaw and the man with the angina attack , were mainly suffering from severe shock and were quickly taken out to the ambulances . |
| 27 | A decade later a greater radical , Jeremy Bentham , suggested that the armed forces of all the European States should be reduced to low fixed levels , that all colonies should be freed ( one of the first recognitions in schemes of this kind of the importance which overseas possessions were now assuming in European politics ) and that a ‘ common court of judicature ’ should be set up to settle international disputes . |
| 28 | Corbett and Thomas were now riding across open meadowland and the poet pointed to three hills , black and stark against the summer-blue sky . |
| 29 | If you were now talking to each other tonight round the table in the restaurant or at the bar in the hotel okay . |
| 30 | In May 1869 he gave his inaugural lecture on Homer , but his classical interests were now turning towards Greek tragedy . |