Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in deference to the Greek drama , they were remarkably lacking in plot or incident . |
| 2 | If they could put their private patients into the private wards of the hospitals where they were already serving as NHS consultants , the organisation of their lives became infinitely easier . |
| 3 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , at about the same time that Sony were launching the Data Discman in Tokyo , they were already previewing in London a similar handheld player which runs Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) , a CD information format designed specifically for multimedia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Who the other two directors were and whether they were justifiably hiding behind pseudonyms is a matter for conjecture . |
| 9 | They were clearly suffering from jet-lag . |
| 10 | Luckily I had some microworm available — they were far too small for the usual Mbuna first foods — and they were soon gaining in size . |
| 11 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 12 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 13 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 14 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 15 | They were also recruiting among teachers and the Protestant clergy and among the Prussian civil service , employees of which were normally banned from belonging to political organisations , but whose membership was in this case overlooked . |
| 16 | They were now drifting down river much faster than before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Since they were often working on stories or novels , they would call out to each other " What are they doing now ? " , if the next chapter was being set by someone else . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | They were really feeling like prisoners and in need of consolation . |
| 23 | ‘ They were always thinking of things to do with me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 27 | Agency director Michael McCarren said they were still looking for youngsters to cast in London shows . |
| 28 | My God , they were still talking about bikes . |
| 29 | They were still talking about Australia , the land of opportunity . |
| 30 | He was so cunning about it that his dancers thought they were still working for John ! |