Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were only going on their reputation |
| 2 | The many Harvard dealers who introduced themselves : " This is … from Harvard Securities in the City of London " were perhaps sharing in their company 's wishful thinking . |
| 3 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 4 | When he had completed the tape , he had absorbed a required unit of work , and subsequent testing generally demonstrated that students were rapidly improving in their grasp of essential material , as well as responding positively to this method of instruction . |
| 5 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 6 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 7 | Last night , reformers were still waiting for their wish to be fulfilled . |
| 8 | Some bananas were still lying outside their crate . |
| 9 | The four Oaks were still hauling on their prisoner and Floy and Snodgrass could see that Balor 's arms and legs were all wrenched from their sockets now , twisted at awkward , unnatural angles . |
| 10 | I told them that the Sandinista soldiers were also Catholics ; were also fighting for their country ; were also longing for peace . |
| 11 | Some of these creatures were almost flying in their desire to get to the nomes . |
| 12 | Bees were quietly going about their business , bumbling from flower to flower , the hot summer day bringing them out in force . |
| 13 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 14 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 15 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |