Example sentences of "were [adj] and [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were happy , we were delighted and we were singing . |
| 2 | His hands and fingernails were filthy , his face and legs were covered in muck , his clothes were sodden and he was glorying in the wetness of it all . |
| 3 | Stewart 's eyes were alight and he was drinking the claret down like water . |
| 4 | His eyes were half-closed and he was smiling a little . |
| 5 | His legs were bare and he was wearing Indian leather sandals , the kind you had to soak in water before you first put them on . |
| 6 | The Tree Spirits of the ancient Wolfwood were awake and they were creeping through the darkening forest towards them . |
| 7 | But any woman would have reacted with anger to his insults , he reminded himself , especially if the barbs he 'd slung at her were accurate and she was trying to convince him otherwise . |
| 8 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 9 | She glanced sideways at him , and , realising belatedly that his eyes were open and he was watching her absorbed face , she flushed to the roots of her hair . |