Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] were [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers who were detecting in the late 1970s and 1980s will remember the range of excellent specialist diggers designed and manufactured by Buffallo Tools of Rayleigh in Essex . |
| 2 | Marie turned , hearing noises behind her , then broke into a smile , bowing to the two elderly gentlemen who were passing in the corridor . |
| 3 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 4 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 5 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 6 | Two further problems confronted the manager : was the national curriculum up to the age of 16 going to feed sensibly through to new policies which were emerging from the combination of general and vocational education from 16 to 19 ? |
| 7 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 8 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 9 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 10 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 11 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 12 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 13 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 14 | The big city was a powerful draw to youngsters who were looking for the chance to better themselves . |
| 15 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 16 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 17 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 18 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 19 | She liaised with the RSSPCC social workers on the mainland who were dealing with the children , and conducted meetings in Orkney about the case . |
| 20 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 21 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 22 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 23 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 24 | Scottish Members of Parliament who were serving on the Committee for the Enterprise and New Towns ( Scotland ) Bill regarding the central provision of core functions in Scottish Enterprise ; |
| 25 | Down in the stinking , toxic undercity that night , the Lordly Phantasms stalked a tech gang who were raiding in the direction of the central heat sink . |
| 26 | The ideal framework for the study of early Anglo-Saxon society is provided by the kingdoms which were developing during the period under consideration . |
| 27 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 28 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 29 | After the ceremony the bridal couple rushed to the photographer 's studio to have their portrait taken , before joining their guests who were waiting for the wedding meal . |
| 30 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |