Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wedding-rings and engagement rings … the ones you were gazing at so rapturously . ’ |
| 2 | Crowds were gathering by now , and many were laughing with amusement . |
| 3 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 4 | The visitors were ahead after five minutes when Lee Sharpe volleyed home a centre from Denis Irwin , and Southampton were struggling from then on to get back into the match . |
| 5 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 6 | In 1984,20 per cent of all establishments were using at least one fixed-term contract worker , and a third of these ( seven per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 7 | About 17 per cent were using at least one agency worker and , again , a third of these ( six per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 8 | Do you like singing in the village , where everybody knows you , or would you in some ways be less nervous do you think if you were singing like even to folk , who just do n't so well ? |
| 9 | The two of them were drooping by then , in reaction from their long and laborious walk home , and sleepy from the wine mulled for them with their supper . |
| 10 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 11 | They were dazzling with brilliantly coloured paintings . |
| 12 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 13 | He argues that AT&T 's $90-a-share bid is ‘ grossly inadequate ’ : strong language for shares that were trading for only $48 before AT&T 's interest became public . |
| 14 | When we were walking over here this morning , I was suggesting to you that in fact computers , really , were numeric devices — they did arithmetic _ and I 'm not sure you actually agreed with me . |
| 15 | Many things were happening at once . |
| 16 | He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination . |
| 17 | Suburbs sprawled out to provide homes for the newly prosperous who were searching for more peaceful surroundings . |
| 18 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 19 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 20 | I thought I recognised er the look of the film you were looking at just now |
| 21 | That in fact we were looking at almost two months ' work erm for project engineering , when in fact that scheme would have been condensed down into project engineering . |
| 22 | Right , and then some that we were looking at there was a function of a function . |
| 23 | ‘ In the late 1980s we were looking for somewhere to produce a whole stream of new products , ’ said managing director of Glaxo Developments Alan Catterall . |
| 24 | On the box in Coronation Street Emily and Ernest Bishop were looking for somewhere to live . |
| 25 | Well obviously the delivery name and address is important and the consignments , so you did n't get that wrong but there was , what we were looking for as well a full written declaration of the nature of contents of any consignment containing dangerous infested , contaminated |
| 26 | I mean if , if , if you were looking from outside and you were going to choose an area that you were going introduce land reform you would choose south China would n't you ? |
| 27 | Well there were one or two that was a bit , got on their high horse , you know and say , It 's disgusting and that , but er I never did because er in cases like that I think there but for the grace of God , you know I I would n't condemn people , in those , we were living in very abnormal times you see . |
| 28 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |
| 29 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 30 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |