Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 2 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 3 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 4 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 5 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 6 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 7 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 8 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 10 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 11 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 12 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
| 14 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 15 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
| 16 | While these groups and individuals may not always have shared our analysis , they were asking the same questions about the link between government claims and reality in relation to job creation and training in West Belfast . |
| 17 | Cos there was different er things do you see , infantry , Royal Welsh and things like that , they were going the same as us . |
| 18 | All the other voices around me were saying the same and the distant peal of the convent bell mingling , not incongruously , with the cry from the minaret went unheeded . |