Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 7 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 8 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 9 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 10 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 11 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 12 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 13 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 14 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 15 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 16 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 17 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 18 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 19 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 20 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 21 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 22 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 23 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 24 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 25 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 26 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 27 | We were following them at a good clip . |