Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
2 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
5 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
6 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |