Example sentences of "they [was/were] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 2 | An authority spokeswoman said they were looking into the complaint . |
| 3 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |
| 4 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 5 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 6 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 7 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 8 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 9 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 10 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 11 | As they were looking at the seed packets together , the robin hopped on to a branch near them . |
| 12 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 13 | The sudden , brief Egyptian twilight had come upon them while they were looking at the boat . |
| 14 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 15 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 16 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 17 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 18 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 19 | While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick . |
| 20 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |