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Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Me and me mam were singing it the other night .
2	The words were leading him the wrong way .
3	I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job .
4	Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there .
5	I thought we were getting her the one with the drawers one with a lockable cupboard is ,
6	I thought we were getting her the one , but the only thing is the other has got drawers both sides has n't it ? if I remember rightly .
7	I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then .
8	Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House .
9	He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted .
10	I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the
11	The uniforms were giving her the once-over .
12	While Hyacinth awarded marks , others , just as predatory , were giving her the eye .
13	‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’
14	And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills .
15	I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed !
16	Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ?
17	I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter .
18	He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way .
19	I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’
20	And you were telling me the other clubs men men had
21	and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely
22	Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ?
23	2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time .
24	But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost .
25	I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year .
26	Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted .
27	‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … .
28	Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia .
29	I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish .
30	Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him .