Example sentences of "people were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one end of Fifth Avenue , people were living in rat-infested hovels in conditions only drug pushers want . |
| 2 | one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge . |
| 3 | I was constantly hearing that people were reacting to all this technology , expressing a wish to go back to basics with a simple bow , a look at the wind , an arrow loosed into the heavens and a hope that with luck it might hit the target . |
| 4 | However , the methods that I and other people were using in 1974 were not able to answer questions such as whether singularities would occur in quantum gravity . |
| 5 | There is a real danger that the sheer scope of the Darwin industry will encourage us to forget that other people were thinking about organic origins at the time , but were exploring very different ways of trying to understand the development of life on earth . |
| 6 | Oh I know , w when we were going we , I stood in the gangway alongside you and I could see , as they were swaying , people were pushing onto other people who were sitting down . |
| 7 | To exclude the influence of how people might feel about different types of lender or types of credit , the information was confined to the terms of the loan — so that in effect people were choosing between rival credit terms possibly within a single credit type . |
| 8 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 9 | People were flocking round each paper , jostling and craning to see what it said and who had signed so far . |
| 10 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 11 | People were smiling at one another ; the shops were busy . |
| 12 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 13 | When you got in there at seven thirty , Chris was n't there and the books were n't there and people were waiting around ready to get off . |