Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he said tha , they were cooking it on like on site on the caravan site , he said an , an , and you know , they got out of this caravan and then |
| 2 | Perhaps this was all a conspiracy between them … they were trying it out on her first . |
| 3 | round the place and then we 'll see how it goes from there , with a view to letting you out , back into the world and er as soon as they 'd gone and they were escorting him back to his , his room , they do n't have cells they have erm , he turned to the warden who are called nurses , and said never wanted to have an operation , I like having sex with little girls , he said |
| 4 | Maybe they were holding him back in Beirut while the final details were worked out . |
| 5 | And they were sending him home without her . |
| 6 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 7 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 8 | ‘ They were taking us out for meals . |
| 9 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |
| 10 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 11 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 12 | Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case . |
| 13 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 14 | They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race . |
| 15 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 16 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 17 | The development was welcomed by exhibitors , who felt that stage adaptations would enable them to attract a better class of customer , but they were n't to know what they were letting themselves in for . |
| 18 | Few clients knew the probable losses they were letting themselves in for , were they to continue trading . |
| 19 | ‘ I went to the toilet and when I came back into the living room , one of them was trying it on with my wife . |
| 20 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |