Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
| 2 | They were wearing cardboard boots that froze in the winter |
| 3 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 4 | He told the police they were wearing dark clothing . |
| 5 | Never mind , also , they were wearing last year 's all yellow kit . |
| 6 | They were facing each other , Ward saying , ‘ We have nothin , that could make it there and back . ’ |
| 7 | Laughing , Edward moved sideways , sweeping her with him , untangling her legs , straightening her until they were facing each other , side by side . |
| 8 | So there they were facing each other , the man a that being squeezed er his lungs being squeezed , the man on the wardrobe n unable to move because he was upside down virtually facing him head-to-head . |
| 9 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 10 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 11 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 12 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 13 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 14 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 15 | Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes . |
| 16 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 17 | IF they thought they were breaking new ground by having the Institute of Directors host a discussion on the lack of women in the boardroom , then Donald Hardie , its Scottish director , and Henry Fairweather , Scottish & Newcastle 's personnel director who put the idea forward , were right — in more ways than one . |
| 18 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 19 | They were kissing each other through gritted teeth , so the story went . |
| 20 | It would be fanciful to suppose that Charles and Diana are enjoying marital bliss just months after their faces confirmed that they were living separate lives . |
| 21 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 22 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
| 23 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 24 | Whose arms went out first they would never know , but suddenly they were holding each other tightly , their mouths hungry for each other . |
| 25 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 26 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 27 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 28 | Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses … |
| 29 | They were drinking horrible coffee from paper cups in Ian 's and Theodora 's attic office . |
| 30 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |