Example sentences of "was [v-ing] them [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval .
2 As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world .
3 The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage .
4 Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time .
5 He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation .
6 Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits .
7 But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road .
8 Because now Cardiff was hauling them through the staircase door and back on to the first-floor landing .
9 He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it .
10 I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in
11 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 .
12 Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall .
13 She had opened a tin of beans , was flopping them into a saucepan at the stove .
14 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 .
15 She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet .
16 A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road .
17 Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy .
18 ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best .
19 ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best .
20 She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk .
21 The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible .
22 Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs .
23 Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’
24 Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time .
25 But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances .
26 But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances .
27 I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor .
28 But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave .
29 And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there .
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