Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were looking at that one |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 3 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 4 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 5 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 6 | We were looking at that last night . |
| 7 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 8 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 9 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 10 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 11 | They were looking at each other . |
| 12 | The men were in the same position , but now they were looking at each other . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
| 14 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 15 | We could n't see the track they were following at all — amazing sense of direction they must have in the Jungle . |
| 16 | There was nothing interesting about what they were doing at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 18 | And they were working at this Pit . |
| 19 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 20 | She had turned to him now and they were staring at each other . |
| 21 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 22 | ‘ O Sydney wouldst thou were living at this hour ! ’ |
| 23 | If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit . |
| 24 | He were looking at that bus . |