Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 2 | ‘ We were looking forward to free hospitality but there was n't a drop in sight . ’ |
| 3 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 4 | Although it was difficult to pretend that a former member of the Rhodesian Special Air Service was on a par in purely military terms with a goat-herd from Bolivia , the fact that both were starting afresh made administration that much easier . |
| 5 | Only when the Cobblers were doing well did county people go to Northampton , hence the club 's languishing state before Chapman took over . |
| 6 | This time we were sitting there drinking wine and having straights [ packet cigarettes ] . |