Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 2 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 3 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 4 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 5 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |