Example sentences of "[noun] they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |
| 2 | By increasing the amount of deuterium they were raising the chance that two deuterons fused together . |
| 3 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |
| 4 | The caller gave the name of a football team and Ubaldo had to reply with the name of the team they were playing the following Sunday . |
| 5 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 6 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 7 | A BT letter told customers they were getting the system free for a three-month trial . |
| 8 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 9 | But last week they were told the trial would again be delayed , possibly as late as May next year . |
| 10 | If it was a bonny day you worked on till sometimes three in the morning they were doing the . |
| 11 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 12 | During the course they were given the facilities of the officers mess where they were fed and housed . |
| 13 | Through hard experience they were learning the price of government and the cost of leadership . |
| 14 | Originally , by taking the maypole they were transferring the luck , bestowed by the tree spirit and which went with the pole , to their own village . |
| 15 | Of Manner In They did the job in the way they were told the clause in the way they were told qualifies did . |
| 16 | The leaders were to receive wages for their men for six months , and for the rest of the year they were to pay the troops out of the ransoms they expected to take . |
| 17 | ‘ We may be looking at a racial motive , but there is no doubt they were copying the other carjackings . ’ |
| 18 | But few who attended today 's ceremonies were in any doubt they were witnessing the end of an era . |
| 19 | Did they have problems with keeping the water out during the time they were storing the |
| 20 | Mary arranged some pillows out there and cushions from the drawing room and by the time they were finished the antiques man had gone . |
| 21 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 22 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
| 23 | Typically enough , the liberals claimed to be re-establishing the early medieval fuero juzgo — a claim which caused endless legal confusion — when in fact they were crowning the work of the eighteenth-century civil servants with the economic individualism of the French Revolution . |