Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 2 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 3 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 4 | But erm , and you could always refer to it in your dialogue with them if you had a claim to make , er that they were only paying the district rate . |
| 5 | Getting the information onto the printer meant that a page description language became essential if Apple were to avoid the problems faced by manufacturers who were just treating the Canon engine as a high quality dot matrix printer . |
| 6 | They were just finishing the apple pie when the phone rang . |
| 7 | If at the time of death the couple were already receiving the State retirement pension , the widow will continue to receive her share . |
| 8 | However , it appears that the plentiful supplies of sugar were not wholly unwelcome to Soviet leaders , who were still pursuing the consumption drive which was behind the February 1960 agreement . |
| 9 | Down in Roirbak 's workshop , Ari skidded to where Leila and Quincx were still re-running the surveillance vid . |
| 10 | Events were now reaching the crisis point . |
| 11 | MPs were today playing the numbers game as the crucial Euro vote drew closer . |
| 12 | Russell interviewed sixth form pupils in the Bradford area during 1982 , and amongst other things commented that ‘ it was disturbing to discover the number of boys who were reluctantly studying the subject mathematics at A level , and were not enjoying it ’ . |
| 13 | There had been no sense of impending crisis and few newspapers were seriously featuring the Falklands situation prior to the invasion . |
| 14 | By dredging up gravel , therefore , river managers were actually de-stabilizing the river bed , thereby contributing to the erosion which they were supposedly trying to prevent . |
| 15 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 16 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |