Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 2 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 3 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 4 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 5 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 6 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 7 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 8 | WHILE Harlequins were yesterday contemplating the Mystery of the Missing Lock , Leicester , the club they beat in Saturday 's Pilkington Cup semi-finals , were gearing themselves for another wearing match tonight . |
| 9 | What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this . |
| 10 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 11 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 12 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 13 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 14 | They were selling them off cheap . |
| 15 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 16 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 17 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 18 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 19 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 20 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 21 | ‘ Except for one other memorable occasion , of course — when you were wearing nothing at all . ’ |
| 22 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 23 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 24 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 25 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
| 26 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 27 | yes but you were , forgive me Lord you were asking him about deliberate er deceit or there would n't be any point in deliberately , get the exact word , misleading the prospective purchaser |
| 28 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 29 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 30 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |