Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm pretty little thing , the er boxes are very standard er in design , they 're they were varying in size , but erm the er sort of double hipped roof , the finials erm the angled corners , of the windows erm the er er the rails erm and the er sort of platform there , er very very standard er all over the place . |
| 2 | And people strove to emulate their creation , while telling themselves they were striving for purity as possessed by the entity , or entities , that had created them . |
| 3 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 4 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 5 | They believed they were operating with Government approval and even risked their lives to spy on Saddam . |
| 6 | Suddenly , they were screaming with laughter , Karen coughing tiny specks of olive across her biscuit-coloured stomach , spilling cold wine onto her arm . |
| 7 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 8 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 9 | They were hanging around town when they met and now they see each other about five times a week . |
| 10 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 11 | Writing has always been fitted in before other demands on her time — two hours in the morning before the children were awake when they were living at home . |
| 12 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 13 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 14 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 15 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |
| 16 | That started because I think Charles saw that they were eventually going had to give way to twenty additional fire fighters and they were looking for safety within the service . |
| 17 | They were n't looking for you , they were looking for cocaine . |
| 18 | She had completely forgotten they were looking for Garry — she had them deep in a holiday romance . |
| 19 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 20 | ‘ They were looking for trouble , ’ said prosecutor Nigel Mylne . |
| 21 | They were looking for trouble and they found us instead . |
| 22 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 23 | They were drinking from pewter tankards . |
| 24 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 25 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 26 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 27 | Far from hounding him gratuitously , they said , they were acting on information received . |
| 28 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 29 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 30 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |