Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 2 | cos is southern Italy and it was nice and sunny during the daytime , so much so that we were walking about in just T-shirts er and all the Italians that came to us said , ye well language , what on earth are you doing without your er sweater |
| 3 | The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters recommendations . |
| 4 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 5 | Yeah well maybe he wanted to see if they were going up in even and odd numbers side of the road . |
| 6 | I do n't know what were going along with so I ai n't got ta say . |
| 7 | Supposedly there was a Hell Fire Club in London in 1934 , but what they were getting up to no one knows . ’ |
| 8 | They said they were sending along at once , so they should be here any minute now . |
| 9 | I 'd rather got the impression that you were coming round to quite enjoying working for me . ’ |
| 10 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 11 | There was a queue outside the parcel store and people were coming out with newly opened clothing parcels in their arms . |
| 12 | just cos you , you were coming out with about two hundred and fifty quid a week for working seven nights a week ! |
| 13 | I arrived home at about tea-time , we talked a bit , the children were charging around until about 7 p.m. , when they had their baths , and by 9 p.m. they were in bed . |
| 14 | This can be interpreted in a number of ways but the most likely reason is that customers were cashing in on relatively good prices as software vendors failed to keep pace with the rouble 's sudden plunge . |
| 15 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |