Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 2 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 3 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 7 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 8 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 9 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 10 | The first signs of a solution to the financial problem began to appear ; the settlers started growing tobacco and by 1611 they were exporting it to England . |
| 11 | A couple of months ago they were pushing it through as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 13 | because they were paying it over here until we had to pay |
| 14 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 15 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 16 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 17 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 18 | They were doing it for Roberto , he was such a lovable character . |
| 19 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 20 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |
| 21 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 22 | Erm , I asked if they were having it in braille and then , and then er |
| 23 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 24 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 25 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 26 | Sorry , did I miss out on something , that , did n't they say who they were selling it to ? |
| 27 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 28 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 29 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |