Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rarely blinked , but sometimes the lids would close and then reopen , as if consciousness were slowly drifting away . |
| 2 | Although so little was heard from them , those who kept tabs on them were convinced that they were slowly fading away . |
| 3 | Feeling as if she were slowly dying inside , she listened to the words . |
| 4 | The B was for Burroughs and the H was for Honeywell — and such US companies were slowly falling further behind IBM . |
| 5 | Vyacheslav Antonov , a senior official of the central press agency , Soyuzpechat , claimed yesterday that readers were merely becoming more discerning , after having snapped up everything on offer in the initial heady flush of press freedom . |
| 6 | He and Rose were better meeting here , on their own , in their own place . |
| 7 | Even relatively unsophisticated observers could see that the Roman leaders were basically interested in their own power and in their own wealth ; their estates , the number of their slaves and all the other signs of unilateral exploitation were daily becoming more conspicuous . |
| 8 | They were all doing all right . |
| 9 | Nothing seemed to be happening , all his senses were apparently functioning normally , except … that the sweet in his mouth seemed permeated with the awful smell ; had become a slimy lump of filth . |
| 10 | ‘ One minute we were apparently coasting home at 3-0 up , the next we were 4-3 down and wondering what had hit us . |
| 11 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 12 | Cos there were we were only getting about five bob a week aye . |
| 13 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 14 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 15 | We were we were only smiling then because Watsons also trains us |
| 16 | This British leadership in technology caused impatience ( and resentment ) and was a barrier to Britain 's becoming a commercial and political leader of the European nations , some of which were only making very early and tentative expenditures on space research . |
| 17 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 18 | Despite the happy applause of Speech Day on 20th June , the Governors were perhaps thinking ahead to their next meeting , a fortnight away , " respecting the financial position of the School " . |
| 19 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 20 | We were gently circling northwards now , heading for home . |
| 21 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 22 | And the people in front were obviously fleeing rather than decoying : Murray 's men . |
| 23 | THESE four happy boys were eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled family Christmas . |
| 24 | Since such changes are inherently unquantifiable , it is impossible to say whether or not people were generally working harder by the end of the boom . |
| 25 | Nothing if you were not looking carefully . |
| 26 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 27 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 28 | Instead of the fairway he found the edge of the rough several times , and his irons were not flying straight at the flag . |
| 29 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 30 | We erm , sold bigger parcels to other parts of the countries in , in this town because we were not dealing specially in Walsall leathers at that time . |