To make negative statements in the Past Continuous, use:

 

was/were + not + the “-ing” form of the verb:

 

Singular	Plural
I was not talking You were not talking He/she/it was not talking	We were not talking You were not talking They were not talking

 

Peter wasn’t doing his homework when his father came in.

Rebecca was angry with her children because they weren’t sleeping when she arrived.