Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] their [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 2 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 3 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 4 | Yes , erm , when Harlow was designed , it was appreciated that its , the , its purpose was to house workers in the factories and the offices and also to act as an overspill from London , and in nineteen sixty when Cossors were bringing their workers by the hundreds |
| 5 | The new men were not aping the landed gentry ; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain . |
| 6 | They were walking their horses among the sand-dunes south of the castle , and on their left hand the sea ran high and grey , and the gulls were uneasy , aware of coming wind . |
| 7 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 8 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 9 | The shoots were pushing their heads above the ground even though the group was still able to claim record profits as late as January of this year . |
| 10 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 11 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 12 | Every one had to be taken out and held down while we picked off the ants that were sinking their jaws between the scales . |
| 13 | People were turning their cars in the driveway to leave the party and caught us in their headlights . |
| 14 | On the contrary , they were risking their lives at the forefront of discovery in a new branch of science . |
| 15 | A third , small , anoraked figure approached the sergeant from behind where his two captives were kicking their legs like the rear end of a pantomime horse on speed . |
| 16 | The hill peoples were sending their representatives to a gathering at Panglong in the Shan States . |
| 17 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 18 | The spear-shaped leaves of the gum tree were dappling their faces as the sun moved towards the Andes . |
| 19 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 20 | Some half-dozen of the girls were having their elevenses in the sunshine in between lessons , and drinking their coffee with a great deal of laughter and chattering . |
| 21 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 22 | They were also rejecting the Great American Dream that had gripped their post-war acquisitive parents , who were stocking their homes with every electric device provided in the Fifties consumer boom . |
| 23 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 24 | Afterwards I met two of these gentlemen who were exercising their elbows in a nearby hostelry and exercising their right to disagree on conscientious grounds with the Wesleyan distaste for alcoholic beverages . |
| 25 | Somerset were healing their wounds after the tempestuous exits of Viv Richards , Joel Garner and Ian Botham . |
| 26 | From 1977 onwards the DES sent a series of circulars to LEAs asking how they were discharging their duties under the 1944 Education Act to monitor the curriculum in the schools . |
| 27 | While Foggerty and Sylvester were shaking their heads over the modern young back in the staff-room , Nutty and her team were congregating at the refrigerator factory to take another look at the amazing happening . |
| 28 | Retailers were pinning their hopes on a strong Christmas after recent figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed that the seasonally-adjusted volume of retail sales fell by 0.1% in November , reversing three continuous months of growth . |
| 29 | Ministers were pinning their hopes on a change of wording in ETA 's latest statement . |
| 30 | Randall smiled again with a hint of mockery , settled the bet and turning away with his kerchief pressed even more firmly to his nose , moved into the cockpit where the cock-masters were preparing their birds for the fight . |