Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bonnards and their car offered the opportunity they were looking for , a way of gaining entry to this country for two operatives and a device of some kind . ’ |
| 2 | Not only that but when we found the mattress we were searching for , one corner had been completely eaten away . |
| 3 | the money they were gon na spend . |
| 4 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 5 | They passed the relief sentinel on his way down , then a knot of three men at the top of the rise who were playing at dice on the cut bole of a tree greeted them as they passed , then the path they were following entered a series of concentric earthworks , man-made mounds and ditches long since overtaken by the forest . |
| 6 | In the words of the Irish ballad , the birds they were singing from tree to tree . |
| 7 | The hilltop we were aiming for looked like an angry volcano . |
| 8 | Its two most recent decisions on the Government 's power to restrain publications by former Crown servants — Spycatcher and the Cavendish Memoirs — were marked by references to the Convention and by an obvious desire manifested by most of the judges to ensure that both the law they were declaring and the decision they were taking in accordance with it would be seen to comply with Article 10 . |
| 9 | Th the decision you were putting to us though Trevor , was whether we put somebody on extra duty payment ? |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 11 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 12 | What appealed to both partners was that by doing so well in the revue , Ken had become an established comedy actor — not comedian , but comedy actor — and that was the kind they were looking for . |
| 13 | She said , the part they were gon na have to put on it |
| 14 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 16 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's the car they were looking for . |
| 18 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 19 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 20 | The referees you were looking for you |
| 21 | And they used to call a meeting and this horse breeding society would have called a meeting you know the ones that looked after choosing the horse they were gon na select for this certain season you see . |
| 22 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 23 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 24 | The dream you were lamming into yesterday was a perfectly good dream , the doctor said . |
| 25 | They praised publishers for the work they were doing in making the national curriculum manageable , for example by relating content to attainment targets . |
| 26 | I thought you know , I did think when they were talking , when the council they were talking about spending a lot of money behind the station |
| 27 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 28 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 29 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |
| 30 | Taffy spent five days cleaning , polishing , painting he copied the motives which were missing from and old nineteen hundred and eight B U machinery catalogue which he examined with a watchmaker 's glass . |