Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 2 | When Minton became friends with her and Rodrigo , they were living at 155 Old Church Street , not far from the popular Queen 's Elm pub in the Fulham Road . |
| 3 | Tommy Drennan and Mr O'Donnell came next and they were looking for two to bring up the rear . |
| 4 | They were looking for 4 men . |
| 5 | Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | They were searching for ten fridges and freezers which the consumer magazine ‘ Which ’ says are the most energy-efficient models on the market . |
| 7 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 8 | Jesus Jones and Morrissey did tours where they were playing to 100 people — and now Morrissey 's playing to 12,000 . |
| 9 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 10 | And they 'd all been in the run , so they all came in for lunch , and they , you know , it 's like twenty bar meals , and then they were coming up to drink , to order drinks , they were doing like ten drinks at a time . |
| 11 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 12 | An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points . |
| 13 | And that 's about it from Talking Sport this evening , the headlines ; Oxford United take a point in a dramatic comeback at Molyneux , they were trailing by three goals to one with four minutes left . |
| 14 | The position of Rathbone and the NUSEC was potentially more radical than pre-War feminists because they were grappling with two new issues , first , the need to improve women 's economic position in the family ( earlier feminists had suggested celibacy as the only alternative to ‘ marriage as a trade ’ ) , and second , the necessity to get away from defining equality for women on men 's terms . |
| 15 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |
| 16 | They were sitting in one of the cafés eating delicious Knickerbocker Glories after a dinner of pizza and salad . |
| 17 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 18 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 19 | Whitten Brown gave in to his instincts , and since they were cruising at 20,000 feet they were definitely higher ones . |
| 20 | the terms they were talking about ten years ago . |
| 21 | But they were talking about forty years or so |
| 22 | They were falling over one another to get on the winning side . ’ |
| 23 | They were selling for five pounds each at a market at Moreton in Marsh in Gloucestershire . |
| 24 | She knew that to outside eyes they were behaving like two civilised adults , even though that was the last thing she felt . |
| 25 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |