Example sentences of "[adv] they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they were wearing the colours of the rainbow . |
| 2 | Suddenly they were playing the game . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps they were looking the other way . ’ |
| 4 | Together they were to form the essential background to the most important British variant of fascism . |
| 5 | Soon they were kicking the bar with their toes , their noses buried in cold beer . |
| 6 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 7 | Cleveland Police could not confirm last night whether or not they were treating the matter as a murder inquiry . |
| 8 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 9 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 10 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 11 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 12 | They kept ringing up their former colleagues , making out they were selling the new Royal Life Unit Trust , that they had risen above OTC dodginess . |
| 13 | Now they were feeling the need to order quite a large amount of food for ‘ skinnys ’ , especially ones whom possessed at some point in time the ‘ narrow cup ’ . |
| 14 | Now they were offered the chance to nominate a Governor ; this they declined , understandably in view of what had happened . |
| 15 | She had soon seen the potential of his drab and neglected establishment , and now they were married the business was doing very well . |
| 16 | Even they were finding the going hard ; other users had given up , and formed temporary alternative paths in the adjacent fields . |
| 17 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 18 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 19 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 20 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 21 | The three children sat round the table and discussed how they were to spend the day . |
| 22 | Well the , the fourth point in relation to er we say that the point has been fully pleaded , corsation is a question of fact , the , er , it 's not an issue which we say arises on these preliminary issues and can raise it er under order eighteen , rule nineteen , if they so wish , that is traditionally the places where it seems nexus points arise erm and they will put in , er app , we will put in , the defendants will put in appropriate evidence at that point , depending upon whether the , the strike out allows evidence and how they frame their strike out , but the nexus point is fully pleaded , we set out step by step and in relation to er restrictions how they were caused the loss , my Lord at that point , at this point we believe that 's all we have to do and certainly we believe that it be sufficient to get over a strike out |
| 23 | It was Crane who had been lamed and the question arose how they were to use the horses . |
| 24 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 25 | That 's what retired employees from the plant decided on a show of hands this year when they were given the option of switching the event to Christmas . |
| 26 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 27 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 28 | This is the same sort of tripe that Conservative Members came out with when they were defending the poll tax ; the poll tax was indefensible , and the council tax is going the same way . |
| 29 | SIX stage-struck students from St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , seized the chance of a lifetime this week when they were offered the opportunity of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company , says a recent school report . |
| 30 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |