Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 2 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 3 | Although , saying th at this big do what they were having that when Tyson walked in this one woman says that that beauty queen and this other woman were singing that Money , Money , Money by Abba . |
| 4 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 5 | We were robbing that jeweller 's . |
| 6 | ‘ You were robbing that jeweller 's , in case you 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 7 | The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we certainly had them when you were cleaning that playbill of William as Lear at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden … ’ |
| 9 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 10 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 11 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 12 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 13 | Erm but then I think we need er I I was hoping we were going that step further |
| 14 | I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable . |
| 15 | There was a banality colouring all visual material reaching us from New York , and the way we were experiencing that banality through the mass-media was regarded as an essential aspect of it . |
| 16 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 17 | It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour . |
| 18 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 19 | And the announcement that we were having that visit . |
| 20 | That is precisely the background to the study which was conducted by the four chiefs of defence staff , they were asking that kind of question and I 'll now ask the Group Captain to respond . |
| 21 | Twelve year olds were doing that kind of task on a computer . |
| 22 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 23 | Well while we were doing that mummy was being all these clothes ready for her birthday . |
| 24 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 25 | Cowley 's meeting with the Commissioner had been successful : CI5 were fully invested with the authority to both guard Stone 's family , and seek out the nature of the person or persons unknown who were harassing that family . |
| 26 | I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well |
| 27 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 28 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that it was " indispensable " to hold an international conference on the Middle East after the resolution of the Gulf crisis and that " a lot of countries were thinking that way , including the USA " . |
| 29 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 30 | yeah but erm as I was saying , when we on science this morning we were watching that film about the vitamins |