Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 2 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 3 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 4 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 5 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 6 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 7 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 8 | As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ? |
| 9 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 10 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 11 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 12 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 13 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 14 | LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun . |
| 15 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 16 | Other right-wing intellectuals were making the same point . |
| 17 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
| 18 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 19 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 20 | A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ . |