Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 2 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 3 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 4 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 5 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 6 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 7 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 8 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 9 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 10 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 11 | Kibona said that 42 per cent of government spending would be devoted to tackling transport and communications problems , which were hindering economic recovery . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 'd think they would n't want to be seen in public ; but no , there they are , living it up , and my own daughter aiding and abetting them as if she were doing some thing clever . |
| 14 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 15 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 16 | It replaces the system of grants to people who were getting supplementary benefit before April 1988 . |
| 17 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 18 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 19 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the days when there was talk of comprehensive schools being ‘ grammar schools for all ’ , what hope was there for children who were experiencing significant learning difficulties ? |
| 22 | Jean-Claude was deeply critical of all the French composers of his generation , who were receiving more attention than he was . |
| 23 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 24 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 25 | In a randomised study of 16 patients with idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis who were undergoing hydrostatic balloon dilation of the pancreatic duct sphincter , somatostatin given intravenously at a dose of 250 µg/hour one hour before and 12 hours after dilatation reduced the incidence and severity of acute pancreatitis compared with placebo . |
| 26 | Those , like Lashley , who were developing specialized test procedures for use with animals were either using them to explore general psychological capacities like ‘ intelligence ’ or were testing predictions from learning theories . |
| 27 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 28 | She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent . |
| 29 | Dominated in the history books by the Wright brothers , this book brings to the fore the many other people , Glenn Curtiss and Alexander Graham Bell among them , who were making significant progress in the brand new world of aviation around the same time as the Wright brothers . |
| 30 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |