Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 2 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 3 | Wilfred Harte , 65 , was enraged because they were always watching TV and running up big electricity bills , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 4 | In the exercise above , you were probably using simile and metaphor without realising it . |
| 5 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 6 | ‘ At that time you were habitually abusing drink and had a serious problem controlling your temper . |
| 7 | She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah 's friend Edie Meadows , who lived nearby , came in . |
| 8 | More changes were now taking place and further pilots were rested . |
| 9 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 10 | The youths were neither causing damage nor harm . |
| 11 | The club was launched in the spring by Dave Caul , the manager , along with Mike Knowler and Andy Carroll , who were previously spinning house and hip hop at The State in Liverpool . |
| 12 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |