Example sentences of "they were [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 2 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 3 | Yanto had picked him up from his home ten minutes before , and they were now racing down the A38 towards Bristol on their first outing on the bike . |
| 4 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 5 | They were obviously staking out the place . |
| 6 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 7 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |