Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 2 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 3 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 4 | ‘ All he had to do was follow them back to the agency , come in as though wanting to book a holiday , and there was gullible little Hilary all ready and waiting to fall in love . |
| 5 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 6 | They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it . |
| 7 | What they had failed to do was pass them on to the laity . |
| 8 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 9 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 10 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |