Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in deference to the Greek drama , they were remarkably lacking in plot or incident . |
| 2 | Yesterday , police confirmed that , in addition to three fires they were already treating as arson , a fourth fire at a holiday home in Pennal , Meirionnydd , was being treated as suspicious . |
| 3 | Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans . |
| 4 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 5 | They were clearly suffering from jet-lag . |
| 6 | Luckily I had some microworm available — they were far too small for the usual Mbuna first foods — and they were soon gaining in size . |
| 7 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 8 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 9 | They were now drifting down river much faster than before . |
| 10 | The flaw was known , but not to the operators on the fatal night ; in allowing the reactor 's power to rise with too many control rods withdrawn , they were unwittingly playing with fire . |
| 11 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 12 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 13 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 14 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 15 | I know they were still judging after midnight and that 's no good really no good at all on a working week . |
| 16 | Woolley was in business with death , while the rest of them were just playing with life . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |