Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two wolves stood by his horse with their ears pricked , and suddenly they began growling deep in their throats . |
| 2 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 3 | If the fish kept coming in they kept going . |
| 4 | Fair enough they needed eating |
| 5 | So they came running back , saying this thing you sold me is a load of rubbish , Wool Woolwich say it 's not good enough , you know , what 's it all about . |
| 6 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 7 | So they started getting drunk together , and writing songs together . |
| 8 | And so they started putting people downstairs everywhere and shoving them in corners that nobody even . |
| 9 | So they started rehearsing again — naturalistic in the midst of a stylistic set which , as Ken pointed out , ‘ contradicted everything that we were doing ’ . |
| 10 | So they started running round . |
| 11 | But he met a William Meek in Washington State and together they started planting orchards . |
| 12 | When they were ten yards away they stopped talking , and they did n't start again till they were safely behind glass . |
| 13 | Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout . |
| 14 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 15 | TEENAGERS who were at school with alleged foster parents ' cruelty victim Paul Llewelyn Jones told a court yesterday they remembered seeing marks on his body . |
| 16 | Off they went raspberrying , guffawing and swearing in between snatches of song , just like the IXth Legion but drier . |
| 17 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 18 | Later they went shopping in the markets and bought her red plastic plates and incense and spaghetti and him a copper kettle and a book so heavy that he could hardly carry it he said . |
| 19 | Outside on the terrace he waved and called to the children , and a moment later they arrived panting and breathless at the top of the broad flight of marble steps . |
| 20 | Now they sat avoiding each other 's eyes . |
| 21 | And every so often they kept coming up , everything alright ? |
| 22 | Eventually they stopped trying . |
| 23 | They were both too conscious that it was the last , the knowledge weighing heavily on them , giving rise to complex emotion each time their eyes met , until eventually they started avoiding looking at each other . |
| 24 | Moreover , most strikers did not see themselves relying on supplementary benefit during the strike — rather they envisaged getting by on their savings and their spouses ' wages . |
| 25 | But as time went on they began returning to the box , which was what we wanted them to do . |
| 26 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 27 | And immediately they started raising the prices of the lunch clubs . |
| 28 | We can reveal exclusively that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were in London a few weeks ago they went shopping for baby clothes . |
| 29 | Over a hundred years ago they started making brass taps in the factory which is now Cooper Oils of Nailsworth . |
| 30 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |