Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 2 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 3 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 4 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 5 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 6 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 7 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |
| 8 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 9 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 10 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 11 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |