Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 2 | BY last night two teachers were outstripping all others in the race to be Teacher of the Year . |
| 3 | So she crammed six big fellers into her front room , sat them down with rum and blankets , and the whole bunch snuggled up like they were queueing all night to buy tickets for the Test Match . |
| 4 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 5 | This over-vigilance or sensitization meant that you were noticing all sorts of minor physical symptoms you would have normally ignored … . |
| 6 | In response to the confirmation that extradition was now banned by the constitution , the leaders of the Medellín drug cartel , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , stated in a communiqué released on July 5 that they had decided to disband themselves and the cartel 's military structure and were ending all action against those they had previously considered as enemies . |
| 7 | Kurdish leaders announced on Nov. 12 , following meetings with government ministers in Baghdad , that they were withdrawing all guerrilla forces south of Arbil , in northern Iraq , in exchange for an end to the three-week long economic blockade [ see also p. 38548 ] . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It was phenomenal , the phones were going all day . |
| 9 | What 's the problem with this new switchboard , has it settled down now or we were getting all sorts of complaints initially |
| 10 | yeah , me stomach were rumbling all night |
| 11 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , Fernando , I do n't care what Steve and Maria Luisa were doing all night — ’ |
| 13 | I just want to phone Steve and find out what he and Maria Luisa were doing all night — as if I ca n't guess . ’ |
| 14 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 15 | Long before we Brits got to grips with spices , the Mexicans were grinding all kinds of seasonings into their sauces to serve with tortillas . |
| 16 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 17 | All this while the company of the Cid were preparing all things to go into Castille , as he had commanded before his death ; and his trusty Gil Diaz did nothing else but labour at this . |
| 18 | and other various tosspots who were sort of giving her pats on the back and they were making all sorts of slurping noises about her , were n't they ? erm salivating |
| 19 | Men were making all kinds of really negative remarks |
| 20 | Andreeva began by welcoming the more open atmosphere in which her students were discussing all kinds of issues , but deplored the way in which the Soviet past had become identified with mistakes and shortcomings . |
| 21 | So the night before the show , the carpenters at London Weekend were working all hours , making a collapsible piano and orchestra . |
| 22 | " Men worked very hard , " said the deputy , " and there were no baths — it was accepted that women would , do it all , they did n't think that the women were working all hours . |
| 23 | I was unloving all winter , |
| 24 | ARMED policeman were last night playing a waiting game outside a country cottage where a man armed with a shotgun was defying all attempts for a negotiated end to the siege . |
| 25 | The leadership of the Radical Civic Union ( UCR ) , the main opposition party , announced on Sept. 24 that it was ending all co-operation with the government . |
| 26 | at the time , I said we were , I was doing sixty hours a week in me car , we were doing six nights a week cabaret and he was driving all day |
| 27 | The guy who owns it was shouting all kinds of stuff and he let it slip . |
| 28 | The living was cheap and easy , the Bearnais were grateful , there was hunting all year round . |
| 29 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 30 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |