Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 2 | They were selling them off cheap . |
| 3 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 4 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 5 | You were lending them to this one here . |
| 6 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 7 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 8 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 9 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 10 | It was as though something was pulling them towards that end of the cabin . |
| 11 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 12 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 13 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 14 | A third , clutching a filthy rag to his face , was threatening them with all manner of retribution . |
| 15 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 16 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 17 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 18 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |