Example sentences of "were [verb] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her grumbling and the dealers ' laughing were sustained all the day . |
| 2 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 3 | And you were dredging all the while ? |
| 4 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 5 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 6 | We were shown all the guide dogs — yellow labradors , black labradors and German shepherd dogs . |
| 7 | We were going all the way along Pond Street . |
| 8 | Moreoever , even if one were to do this the fact of setting up the control and the experimental groups could well introduce a note of artificiality into the experiment . |
| 9 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy of Barnard Castle police said video cameras were recording all the time at Barnard Castle Bridge over the River Tees . |
| 10 | Indeed honours were shared all the way to a tie-break in which Adebisi was able to switch up a gear and take a firm hold of the situation , winning 7–2 , to take the first set . |
| 11 | They accepted — and ultimately so did she — that they would have to retreat in their domestic fight for secularism if they were to keep alive the hope of making peace with the Arabs . |
| 12 | Well the erm the girls were doing all the the wives were doing all the food parcels every week . |
| 13 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 15 | We were penalised all the time . ’ |
| 16 | we were sashaying all the way to Largs |
| 17 | The drunks were moved on and John and his friends were followed all the way home . |
| 18 | For the Nationalists , it was an offensive war of attrition to eradicate every last vestige of liberal democracy , in which they were winning all the way . |
| 19 | Oh well it was going when I was , you were talking all the way back from the squash club |
| 20 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 21 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 22 | Initially Rentokil were awarded half the site with the rest going to another company . |
| 23 | Eastern province won four of their six matches to end on 28 points , but were chased all the way by the young orange Free State side , led for most of the summer by the 22-year-old Hansie Cronje . |
| 24 | ‘ But they were quarrelling all the time ! ’ |
| 25 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 26 | ‘ After the demise of our great team in ‘ 86 we were building sand castles for a while — they were collapsing all the time . |
| 27 | I thought they were supposed to be a professional outfit but they were whingeing all the time . ’ |