Example sentences of "that they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 2 | Already they knew that they were nearing the trees , for the burning Tower was low and far off . |
| 3 | And administrators who remembered the way their own adolescent energies and rivalries had been worked off in school sports tried unsuccessfully , but with remarkable persistence , to introduce football into the manyattas , believing that they were providing the moran with an attractive alternative to stock-raiding Major Clarence Buxton did not stop at football but — like an enterprising housemaster introducing an Outward Bound programme — organized lion hunts for his moran . |
| 4 | But by the time that they were completed the largest space of all was the nave , which might serve various purposes — as a shelter for great processions , as a substantial public hall and meeting place ; but above all provided space for visitors and lay worshippers . |
| 5 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 6 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 7 | So much so , indeed , that they were given the task of overseeing the Minor side this year . |
| 8 | His rigorous moral choice against communism strengthened a sense of moral superiority among the Germans , who felt that they were holding the fort for the free world : |
| 9 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 10 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 11 | They recognised that they were achieving the three ‘ S ’ factors — stamina , suppleness and strength . |
| 12 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 13 | Although I did not understand I could see that they were discussing the problem . |
| 14 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 15 | Most schools seemed to be satisfied that they were meeting the needs of pupils , at least to some extent ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 16 | Much later ( there were many other aspects to the case ) the client organisation wrote to say that they were seeking the son 's consent but as there was a possibility that the offer of compensation would be withdrawn . |
| 17 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |
| 18 | And underneath the lofty claims that they were fulfilling the will of God and freeing the kingdom from oppression and tyranny , and the open attacks on the regent 's actions , there were still hints of the desire to come to terms , which reflect their awareness of how shaky the basis of their self-defence was . |
| 19 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 20 | The police had asked a judge on Sept. 2 to authorize the arrest of Farias and of Collor 's former private secretary Claudio Vieira , alleging that they were obstructing the investigation into government corruption . |
| 21 | The Mandela concert organisers eventually told Terry Wogan 's people that they were saving the GLHB for a special edition of Desert Island Discs , to be called Robben Island Discs . |
| 22 | But how long after did they realise that they were saving the environment by not having to dump the waste , and by using Organic Matter to help plant-life grow , rather than synthetic chemicals ? |
| 23 | The government was also particularly anxious in an election year to ensure both that the benefits of the scheme were recognised and that accusations that they were encouraging the development of a two tier service were not substantiated . |
| 24 | Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) . |
| 25 | On the following day the radical mayors of Moscow and Leningrad , respectively Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak , similarly announced to the congress that they were leaving the party . |
| 26 | The TA bring up the rear , dressed in their lightweight trousers , boots and shirts ; many a member of staff and Regular recruit wishes that they were dressed the same , as the sun is high in the sky and their No 2 dress is somewhat warm . |
| 27 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 28 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 29 | Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles . |
| 30 | In other words that they were shifting the blame . |