were regarding
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past progressiveof regard.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
regardverb (used with object)to look upon or think of with a particular feeling.
Example Sentences
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The SARs were regarding funds from "China and other foreign nations," another source familiar with the investigation told Fox News.
From Fox News ● Dec. 10, 2020
Peter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said the "main concerns at the closed site were regarding issues of safety and respect".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2017
His only concerns were regarding his timing and the physicality of his opponents — things that couldn’t be adequately simulated outside of a game.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2016
Prosecutors also say Morrissey was recorded suggesting that the teen tell police the “graphic texts” were regarding “some other boy.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2014
Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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