Example sentences of "[Wh det] they were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 2 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 3 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 4 | Did n't passion arise from a clash of extremes rather than the equal union she and Dmitri shared — and which they were expressing in this long , unmoving screw ? |
| 5 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 6 | He ended his talk by praising his staff for the way in which they were responding to students with special needs , particularly those with physical or sensory disabilities , who were increasingly seeking to pursue studies at the Darlington college . |
| 7 | As one solicitor ( Williams 1973 ) wrote , ‘ did these eminent bodies have the slightest idea of the nature of the delicate area on which they were trampling with their feet ? ’ |
| 8 | If I had to undress in front of them , I 'd be wondering what they were thinking about my body — ‘ Do they think I 'm anorexic , or just plain thin ? |
| 9 | When their reports of what they were thinking about were examined , it was found that these were frequently bizarre , commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery and , so far as the experimenters were concerned , were indistinguishable from dream reports . |
| 10 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 11 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
| 12 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 13 | The football crowd and estate dwellers of the big cities did n't five a monkeys what they were wearing in Harlem or anywhere else ; if it looked good in the Anfield Road End , the Scoreboard Paddock or the Clock End , it was good enough for them . |
| 14 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 15 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 16 | All the individual professionals , managers and planners , together with the local people the service was designed to serve , shared a common vision as to what they were aiming for , often based around the concept of providing a more ‘ normal ’ home life for patients who had previously lived in an institution . |
| 17 | They did n't know what they were hoping for quite honestly |
| 18 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 19 | To understand the classicists it helps to have some understanding of what they were reacting against . |
| 20 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |
| 21 | We did n't know what they were looking for in them . |
| 22 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 23 | ‘ They said he was just what they were looking for , ’ Beverley said yesterday at home in Alwoodley , Leeds . |
| 24 | It was not long before Fiver found what they were looking for . |
| 25 | People who came to the Turk 's Head really had to know what they were looking for . |
| 26 | Foucard said : ‘ They were very thorough , your friends , but did they find what they were looking for ? ’ |
| 27 | These users were asked whether they had used the catalogue before , whether they found what they were looking for and whether they had any particular problems or would like to make any suggestions for improving the catalogue . |
| 28 | They did n't know what they were looking for , any more than we did . |
| 29 | ‘ the exercise assumed that academics would know what they were looking for ’ . |
| 30 | They knew what they were looking for . |