Example sentences of "they were [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By dawn they were staking out the Radcliffe Infirmary , Grosvenor Square , Downing Street and Scotland Yard . |
| 2 | They were packing up the stalls when we left , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 3 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 4 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 5 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 6 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |
| 7 | In no time at all they were coasting down the slope out of the car park . |
| 8 | There was a van by the door and they were loading up the files , the contracts , documents , everything ; ’ |
| 9 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 10 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 11 | Most watches become false alarms ; nevertheless , they were buttoning up the collection and making sure that every completed aircraft was hangared . |
| 12 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 13 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 14 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 15 | They were driving down the Boulevard St Germain towards the river ; the Seine 's fast-flowing current , parted hard against the piers of the bridges , seemed to Miranda 's eyes to capture the pace and temperament of this city where she felt so happy , where she wanted to stay . |
| 16 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |
| 17 | They were testing out the boiler of their Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd . |
| 18 | The old Hollywood was in trouble , almost bankrupt of money and ideas and in disarray ; they were closing down the back lots , demolishing the massive stages and selling off the vacant land for shopping malls and car parks . |
| 19 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 20 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 21 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 22 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 23 | Both his arms were covered in seething black sleeves , a moment later and his face was covered with insects , too , and they were pouring down the front of his shirt . |
| 24 | Both of them were wiping out the experience , banishing it totally from their minds . |
| 25 | Minutes later the two of them were heading down the gangway . |