Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby , pale young men wearing Save the Baby T-shirts were selling Let me Live tapes , Silent Scream videos , Mother Teresa postcards , ‘ precious feet ’ badges , ‘ stop doctors starving babies to death ’ stickers , Even Nice Girls . |
| 2 | We were n't really interested , particularly in Nottingham , it was the general strike but what we were going to do I mean we 'd o er we we 'd er already formed , more or less , a government of our own , if you understand me , to take over , you see ? |
| 3 | But erm what they were going to do I do n't know . |
| 4 | Different size rivets , different lengths , and I , while I were hotting hotting I knew where , eventually knew where , what size rivet to put in a certain place . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 7 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 8 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |