Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 2 | It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire . |
| 3 | London and other cities were slowly dying underneath the Blitz , and intelligence on U-boat building ( top secret ) was terrifying to those who knew . |
| 4 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 5 | In fact , however , we now owe you money , since you were effectively acting as a salesman ! |
| 6 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 7 | They were constantly issuing from the lips of ministers . |
| 8 | He was lying on a bed , placed between two open windows , his head being without any cap or covering of any sort , while his grey locks were literally floating in the wind , for , although in July , it was cold and blowing weather . |
| 9 | 212 ) , and submitted that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court on disciplinary appeals they were merely acting as the final tier in the same disciplinary process . |
| 10 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 11 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 12 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 13 | On the contrary , it is an extremely common condition in post-war English primary education , and the agents of PNP policy in Leeds were merely conforming to the general tendency . |
| 14 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 15 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 16 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 17 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 18 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 19 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 20 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 21 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 22 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 23 | He could n't understand why they were suddenly running over the sand . |
| 24 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 25 | She and Boldwood were obviously going for a ride together . |
| 26 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 27 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 28 | Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people . |
| 29 | These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come . |
| 30 | WE WERE just getting over the shock of seeing Arkle 's skeleton when this peacock strutted into the bar . |