Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] they [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
3 | 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 , |
4 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
5 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
6 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
7 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
8 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
11 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
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 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
14 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
15 | Because now Cardiff was hauling them through the staircase door and back on to the first-floor landing . |
16 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
17 | 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 |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall . |
20 | She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet . |
21 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
22 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
25 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
28 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
29 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
30 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |