Example sentences of "[adv] they were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were influenced by the ghoulish sets and sound effects , Christopher Lee 's cape and the ‘ blood capsules ’ they bought to disgust their pals . |
| 3 | So they were appointed under the seal of office of the seneschal , not the great seal of England . |
| 4 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 5 | Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health . |
| 6 | Soon they were pulling into the car park . |
| 7 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 8 | Soon they were driving into the hospital car park . |
| 9 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 10 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 11 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 12 | Tonight they were going to the theatre . |
| 13 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 15 | He kept pupils moving so quickly they were running past the cage and had to join the queue again to get a proper look . |
| 16 | Their colonies , looking like so many miniature hacksaw blades , often completely covered bedding planes , and usually they were found in the absence of other kinds of fossils . |
| 17 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 18 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 19 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 21 | Later they were dropped from the cast . |
| 22 | A short time later they were sitting round the table . |
| 23 | Minutes later they were installed in the bar of the White Lion , where the dish of the day , to Leonora 's astonishment , proved to be roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with vegetables from mine host 's own garden . |
| 24 | Most probably they were thrown into the sea to lighten the load when the ship found itself in difficulties . |
| 25 | With their baggage truck trundling fifty yards behind they were heading towards the junction of the Dong Nai and La Nga rivers sixty miles from Saigon , where wild water buffalo and other rare animals of Southern Asia roamed freely through a low-lying region of jungle and plain . |
| 26 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 27 | Now they were passing by the foundries , the guides choosing neglected routes to disorient the younger cadets , so it seemed . |
| 28 | Now they were gathered in the chapel for her final journey home . |
| 29 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 30 | Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass . |