Example sentences of "they were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 2 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 3 | They were slowing for a roundabout . |
| 4 | From their sure-footedness over ankle-twisting rocks , they were obviously young , and they were babbling in the manner of teenage boys with everyone talking and no one listening . |
| 5 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 6 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 7 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 8 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 9 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 10 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 11 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 12 | Both Billy and Tony had praised his coolness , and they were puzzling over the fate of their confederates . |
| 13 | Lights blazing , their car cannoned off the kerb , tyres squealing in protest , then they were roaring along the alley . |
| 14 | Thinking they were breaking with the past , the early Christians re-enacted it . |
| 15 | One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) . |
| 16 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 17 | It was another hot windless day , and they were living in a bowl of milky haze and smog , so that the blue only began perhaps twenty degrees above the horizon . |
| 18 | But I knew they were living in the past , knew too that there was no way that Allan Wells was going to beat me . |
| 19 | They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds , plundered by Maxwell from pension funds . |
| 20 | They were calling for the right to hold free festivals and raves like the week long event at Castlemorton Common at the end of May . |
| 21 | An authority spokeswoman said they were looking into the complaint . |
| 22 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 23 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 24 | The police could not know whether they were looking for a skiff , a punt , or a cabin cruiser . |
| 25 | When police and soldiers resumed their search of the area around Cirencester Golf Course this morning they were looking for a body . |
| 26 | They were looking for an instrument of murder . |
| 27 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 28 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 29 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 30 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |