Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 2 | I went into the van where the people were booking in and asked if there was any chance of me having a go . |
| 3 | Ah , when you were walking about and said I 'm trying this out I thought it was erm I thought our exercise bike had come . |
| 4 | Some time later , when they were walking back and approaching her apartment block , Luke touched her elbow lightly , startling her , since he had been avoiding physical contact with her all day . |
| 5 | He could see that her hands were trembling faintly and remembered how that felt . |
| 6 | The ones who were looking at them were looking silently and glancing at their catalogues , and the rest were talking about other matters — mostly about where they had last met . |
| 7 | People were passing through and staying and using the facilities . |
| 8 | People were passing through and staying and using the facilities . |
| 9 | ‘ People were prowling round and taking food from each other when their backs were turned , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 10 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 11 | Nicandra shrank away — she was not at all courageous about horses , especially when they were fidgeting threateningly and blowing out through their noses at the same time . |
| 12 | They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent . |
| 13 | ‘ People were turning around and going back the other way , which was extremely dangerous . |
| 14 | ‘ He said Where are you guys going , have I missed it , or something like that , and we said … we were going out and have a bite of lunch . ’ |
| 15 | but he he were getting cos you were going out and having a drink er on er Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd got on the train at Morpeth and threw letters out at Darlington , saying we were going abroad and hoping somebody would pass the letters on . |
| 17 | At the age of 9 years , moved on , she was accompanied by her good friend , at their new school , Stonham Aspel. was more fortunate than some as the such-like of and : they were moving away and faced a strange school and strange people . |
| 18 | The Councillors were getting up and shouting . |
| 19 | Instead they were marching backwards and pausing every few steps to fire steady and effective volleys at their French attackers . |
| 20 | After two or three minutes , by which time the typists were switching off and covering up their machines , Alan emerged from his office and handed Sylvia a cassette . |
| 21 | Other people were coming upstairs and going straight in through the double doors marked Wards 3 and 4 . |
| 22 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 23 | Peasants from nearby gubernii were coming in and exporting wheat . |
| 24 | Marx , in particular , had already noted this fact in several places , but he explained the phenomenon of internal division as a transitional one ; as evidence of a stage in which private property and individual families were coming in and undermining the communal descent group . |
| 25 | ‘ They were coming in and going round and round in the system . |
| 26 | and er then people were coming along and saying the woman in the sandwich shop |
| 27 | In the doorway there were about six or seven young student doctors all in their white coats smiling at me , and the nurses were milling around and talking . |
| 28 | Soon all three of them were reeling out and reeling in , pouncing on the fish as soon as they could reach them and pulling the hooks from their mouths . |
| 29 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 30 | At the top of the hill she was still in the forefront of matters with Run And Skip , but behind them Wayward Lad and Forgive 'N Forget were travelling smoothly and coming ever closer . |