Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 2 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 5 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 6 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 7 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
| 8 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 9 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 10 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 11 | She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk . |
| 12 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 13 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 14 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 15 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 16 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 17 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 18 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 19 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 20 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 21 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 22 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 23 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 24 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 25 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |
| 26 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 27 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 28 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 29 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |