Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 2 | The show continued until Christmas by which time Mr Smith and Doris realized they were facing up to a new way of life that would challenge them even more than the lean and difficult times of the thirties . |
| 3 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 4 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 5 | We wo n't know till tomorrow what sort of dog 's breakfast they 'll dish up out of it , but they were waffling on about the poor little guinea-pig baby . |
| 6 | Such contributions were highly valued because the members felt that they were learning much about their own school . |
| 7 | ‘ I did not get the impression they were reaching out for help , there was not a general mood of crisis . ’ |
| 8 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 9 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 10 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 11 | By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped , letting the clouds gather . |
| 12 | They were flapping round on the |
| 13 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 14 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 15 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 16 | They often looked very strained to Anna , as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life . |
| 17 | This situation could make receptiveness on ATB courses questionable but the people concerned were certain that if they were looking forward to the course they would ‘ switch over ’ fairly easily . |
| 18 | Tiptree spokesman Tim Huxtable said that they were looking forward to their day out , and that Peter Richardson , Michael Beckett , Rob Hadgraft , Gerry Madden , Liz James and the others were keen to make an impression . |
| 19 | I did , however , remember us asking the children if they were looking forward to a fortnight in Umbria . |
| 20 | They were looking forward to tilling their own fields in a land of plenty . |
| 21 | Then , as they approached , he realized that they were looking not at him , but past him at something farther off . |
| 22 | By this time , they were looking ahead to the long-term effects on the children of the arbitrary manner in which they had been removed , and the lengthy absence from their homes and families . |
| 23 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 24 | They say they were looking foreward to having two new friends . |
| 25 | The tinder caught and glowed , the candle billowed , a small orb of yellow light between their two faces , and they were looking intently into each other 's eyes across the flame . |
| 26 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 27 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 28 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 29 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 30 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |