Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 2 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 3 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 4 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 5 | From their sure-footedness over ankle-twisting rocks , they were obviously young , and they were babbling in the manner of teenage boys with everyone talking and no one listening . |
| 6 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 7 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 8 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 9 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 10 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 11 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 12 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 13 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 14 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 15 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 16 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 17 | Both Billy and Tony had praised his coolness , and they were puzzling over the fate of their confederates . |
| 18 | Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass . |
| 19 | Lights blazing , their car cannoned off the kerb , tyres squealing in protest , then they were roaring along the alley . |
| 20 | Thinking they were breaking with the past , the early Christians re-enacted it . |
| 21 | One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) . |
| 22 | The two girls had reached the stage where they were hanging round the boys necks and roaring with laughter at virtually every word they uttered . |
| 23 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 24 | But I knew they were living in the past , knew too that there was no way that Allan Wells was going to beat me . |
| 25 | Then they were rocking past the shut faces of the village houses towards the black thickets down the river . |
| 26 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 27 | They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds , plundered by Maxwell from pension funds . |
| 28 | Full marks for training there — after all , anyone could say they were calling under the auspices of the BBC . |
| 29 | They were calling for the right to hold free festivals and raves like the week long event at Castlemorton Common at the end of May . |
| 30 | Employees qualified for travel expenses while they were commuting between the old and new locations , before moving into accommodation in the new area . |