Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know why my experienced colleague and I were both having trouble with the yarn looping at the edges . |
| 2 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 3 | Time you were away playing toy soldiers , who do you think looked after this house and the estate ? |
| 4 | In the exercise above , you were probably using simile and metaphor without realising it . |
| 5 | ‘ At that time you were habitually abusing drink and had a serious problem controlling your temper . |
| 6 | And after allowing for income tax you were actually losing money . |
| 7 | We were just telling Jacqui here , we are absolutely desolated … ’ |
| 8 | We were just cooking dinner in the kitchen when in walked Audrey Fyfe and Margaret Russell , friends from the Lothian section of the CTC ! |
| 9 | Sure enough , we were soon catching bonito , a fish in the tunny family which resembles a huge mackerel . |
| 10 | To see a familiar , friendly face in a room full of strangers was very pleasant and we were soon exchanging news . |
| 11 | It was easy , when we were predominantly discussing philosophy , to link farm animal welfare and protection of the environment , in so far as they are both concerned with what qualifies us to consider ourselves to be good people . |
| 12 | At the time we were alongside Vigilant when our port engine mysteriously started while we were all having lunch . |
| 13 | We were only playing leapfrog |
| 14 | We were only playing leapfrog |
| 15 | We were only playing leapfrog |
| 16 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 17 | We were always putting pressure on him to jack it in . |
| 18 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 19 | Of those which responded , 39% indicated they were already doing business in the market with the remaining 61% not involved . |
| 20 | But again they were probably making use of much older tracks evolved for very different purposes For a short time they were important . |
| 21 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |
| 22 | in the meantime Brocklesby was approaching and this one horrendous photograph of me looking very harassed you can well imagine and my father ever pompous when he saw this photograph said huh where were your directors , was n't one of them in charge , and I said no they were away having lunch , they were just going to arrive when they you know , anyway ? |
| 23 | As in Australia , they were soon working flat out with people coming to them from all walks of life . |
| 24 | does n't always go down too well but well in the end I went in to their bedroom and actually they were awake , they were just laying sort of a bit sleepily on the bed together on Katie 's , both on Katie 's bed . |
| 25 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 26 | We had paid some money to the police to look after us and they were also taking money from the journalists , and giving us their news , and ours to them ! |
| 27 | They were also wearing safety helmets . ’ |
| 28 | They were also organising business planning courses for their doctors and dentists . |
| 29 | They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time . |
| 30 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |