Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 2 | Of those which responded , 39% indicated they were already doing business in the market with the remaining 61% not involved . |
| 3 | But again they were probably making use of much older tracks evolved for very different purposes For a short time they were important . |
| 4 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |
| 5 | in the meantime Brocklesby was approaching and this one horrendous photograph of me looking very harassed you can well imagine and my father ever pompous when he saw this photograph said huh where were your directors , was n't one of them in charge , and I said no they were away having lunch , they were just going to arrive when they you know , anyway ? |
| 6 | As in Australia , they were soon working flat out with people coming to them from all walks of life . |
| 7 | does n't always go down too well but well in the end I went in to their bedroom and actually they were awake , they were just laying sort of a bit sleepily on the bed together on Katie 's , both on Katie 's bed . |
| 8 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 9 | We had paid some money to the police to look after us and they were also taking money from the journalists , and giving us their news , and ours to them ! |
| 10 | They were also wearing safety helmets . ’ |
| 11 | They were also organising business planning courses for their doctors and dentists . |
| 12 | They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time . |
| 13 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 14 | One never had to go far in search of the movies ; like the masses themselves they were rapidly achieving ubiquity . |
| 15 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 16 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 17 | ‘ Why did Uncle Titch never grow up ? ’ he asked once when they were home having tea . |
| 18 | Not by much , but they were definitely arriving off-centre . |
| 19 | They never asked questions but they were inevitably acquiring information that could be fatal . |
| 20 | She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah 's friend Edie Meadows , who lived nearby , came in . |
| 21 | They were always borrowing money , even for cigarettes . |
| 22 | Wilfred Harte , 65 , was enraged because they were always watching TV and running up big electricity bills , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 23 | The lake birds appeared to be healthy enough , but they were always scrounging food from the tourists and picking over the debris that washed up on the lake shore . |
| 24 | Maybe they were still eating cabinet pudding in those days . |
| 25 | The bureau arrived while they were still having tea . |
| 26 | They were still pleading competition in 1910 , when Mr Begg for Clark 's argued that " without cheap labour , the London book trade must leave Edinburgh , owing inter alia to greater freight rates " . |