Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was in the days when they were laying tracks on the ice ; in the days , too , when you could get married out there . ’ |
| 2 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 3 | Around them grew up short streets of cottages for the workpeople , run up so quickly that they look as though they were planted flat on the surface , without any foundations ; but still there was no congestion . |
| 4 | We went a trip and there was two lasses and the class Heather and and they were playing soldiers on the way back . |
| 5 | They were doing battle on the pitch rather than swapping banter in the columns of their alternative programmes . |
| 6 | It was while they were having breakfast on the following morning that they saw a car pull up outside . |