Example sentences of "were [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 2 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 3 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 4 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 5 | JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time . |
| 6 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 7 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 8 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the seaside resorts were undergoing the first stages of the process that was to transform the seaside holiday from an exclusive upper-class recreation into a national institution . |
| 9 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 10 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 11 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 12 | They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes . |
| 13 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 14 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 15 | were doing the first |
| 16 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 17 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 18 | Epic were the memories of the subsequent hearty celebrations , with the Hampshire players soaked in ‘ Lordship 's ’ champagne ; with the train back to Southampton ‘ virtually rocked ’ by the near hysterical merrymaking ; with , in a final Wooster-like-oddity , Tennyson having first led his team to the train for Northampton , where , indeed , Warwickshire were playing the next day . |
| 19 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 20 | Between them they were carrying the sixth figure — the limp , white faced form of Brett Grant . |
| 21 | In April 1945 , as the partisans and Allies were freeing the last parts of northern Italy , Mussolini was smuggled out of Milan by the Germans . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ We were planning the next evacuation when the shelling began … we were flat on the ground on the landing zone when the last shell impacted about 20 yards from us , injuring two Canadian UN soldiers . ’ |