Example sentences of "they [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 2 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 3 | You have to remember that Americans only found this endemic American music in the '60s when they began listening to English groups , who were doing something really important , which was taking black music and making it louder . |
| 4 | They hung drying on short loops of black thread suspended from lengths of string stretched across the walls from corner to corner , and dim shadows turned slowly on the walls behind them . |
| 5 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 6 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 7 | If they started pinching from old people and things like that |
| 8 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 9 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 10 | Then , for the first time she noticed how clumsy they were — they kept bumping into each other . |
| 11 | We 're having good fun , they kept going with big spaces and could n't get them up . |
| 12 | They kept talking about this creature . |
| 13 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 14 | The old died first , the beggars and the maimed ; they just froze as they leaned gasping against urine-stained walls . |
| 15 | Not all of them were even keen readers outside working hours , and they preferred relaxing in other ways . |
| 16 | They stood swearing at each other , both aware that everyone was watching . |
| 17 | He straightened up , and they stood looking at each other . |
| 18 | They stood looking at each other uncertainly , then Carrie made her way to the door and he heard her going upstairs , with considerably more skill than he would be able to muster . |
| 19 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 20 | They stood looking at each other , and then he cleared his throat . |
| 21 | They sat looking at each other without speaking . |