Example sentences of "was [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk . |
| 32 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 33 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 34 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 35 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 36 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |
| 37 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 38 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 39 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 40 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 41 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |
| 42 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |