Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most local surveys on the prevalence of disability indicated that existing registers were badly understating it . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 3 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 4 | He asked why they were constantly hitting him when he was not retaliating . |
| 5 | They were constantly asking me if there was any news of him and becoming increasingly anxious themselves by the lack of progress . |
| 6 | I felt as if hordes of people were constantly shaking me , shaking my whole insides , shaking me until I 'd cry in anguish . |
| 7 | These commitments were constantly distracting him from what he called " my real , philosophical task , to which , if necessary , I must sacrifice my career " . |
| 8 | The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder . |
| 9 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 10 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 11 | They were all doing it , everyone , moving time back , at the simple behest of a voice . |
| 12 | We were n't shooting the writers , we were only disgracing them — and look how few people came forward in their defence . |
| 13 | ‘ We were only following him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 15 | Because the team were only testing she was , once again , the only woman around . |
| 16 | When I got there , it turned out they were only leasing them , and I wanted the security of my own place . |
| 17 | We all groaned a bit and snivelled like kids , and we were putting it on , but we were only putting it on because underneath we did feel sad seeing our names rubbed out . |
| 18 | Now the surrounding squat towers of glossy darkness , with dully glowing hearts resembling X-rayed organs , were perhaps disorienting him — while overhead the sky was cross-stitched with hundreds of thinnest pulsing lines of coherent light , appearing , disappearing , rendering incandescent whatever atmospheric dust they stabbed through . |
| 19 | Kate found it hard to avoid hearing about him ; he seemed daily to be permeating her senses almost as if he were personally hounding her even though she accepted that had to be crazy thinking on her part . |
| 20 | He prowled over to the far side of the kitchen , then slammed down a couple of plates , as if he were suddenly finding it very hard to control his own temper . |
| 21 | Lot of owners were down checking them . |
| 22 | If it was you who answered the telephone , they hung up but when you were away riding they spoke to me . |
| 23 | Her eyes unfocused , her mind back in the past , she continued softly , reminiscently , ‘ It was after the war , you see , and women had become used to working , being independent , and jobs they 'd held down while their men were away fighting they were n't about to give up easily . |
| 24 | If the calf dies , you will wish you were not wearing them either , although they may help you as you dig a hole for the body . |
| 25 | ‘ The family and surgeon were not expecting him to live , ’ said family friend Patrick Shervington . |
| 26 | And yet it 's the people around Harlow were not supporting it what the hell are you going to do then ? |
| 27 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 28 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 29 | In terms of the sort of , negotiation , were there any stages , when people were not telling you about |
| 30 | Were not telling you |