Example sentences of "they were [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were fishing people and were obviously hard at work fashioning a new canoe . |
| 2 | He proposed that decision-makers should be understood to act as if they were maximizing utility . |
| 3 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 4 | When , late in 1978 , Kristen and her boyfriend Kevin Ayers announced that they were leaving England to live in Spain , Branson took the opportunity to buy Ayers ' houseboat , the Duende , moored on the Regents Canal , a short distance from his old boat . |
| 5 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 6 | Jessamy realised they were leaving Oxfordshire and entering the Cotswolds , with their rolling uplands and wooded valleys , tiny villages with golden-stoned houses , and swift-flowing rivers . |
| 7 | They were mourning rings , real eighteenth century . |
| 8 | ‘ They were firing machine guns into the air . |
| 9 | When taking a train journey women were advised to equip themselves with the largest hat-pin they could find and if travelling by night , or through a tunnel , they were to sit bolt upright , hat-pin clenched between the teeth in case of attack . |
| 10 | In working clothes and boots they would have walked through , but they were wearing Sunday white stockings and thin shoes which they did not want to ruin . |
| 11 | A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’ |
| 12 | " They were wearing army clothes — but you can buy them at any army surplus stores . " |
| 13 | They were wearing life-jackets , and I was there , of course . |
| 14 | In answer to our persistent questioning , he bravely confessed the truth we had asked for — that Leslie and his men , in spite of the fact that they were wearing uniform , might have been shot as franc-tireurs . |
| 15 | All sounds were muffled except the song of the birds and the pigeons were puffed up , looking as if they were wearing greatcoats , as they waited for the generous breakfast which they knew Jane would bring out to them . |
| 16 | They were no longer wearing string vests , they were wearing Lacoste polo shirts with an alligator emblem on the pocket or ‘ Cisco Kid ’ shirts with diagonal zippers . |
| 17 | It was supposed to look like they were wearing epaulettes but it never did . |
| 18 | Now what this meant in practice was that er y'know appropriate supervisors would appear at random intervals and give people tokens if they were wearing ear defenders , okay ? |
| 19 | The Sun made the connection quite explicit — ‘ They were wearing balaclava helmets like the Fox rapist , who held the area in terror last summer , and skinhead-style Dr Marten boots ’ . |
| 20 | This is the other bit of hard work — admitting that our children are n't sick or deranged , but that they were exercising consumer choice . |
| 21 | It appeared that the enemy force , consisting of two motor rife regiments ( the equivalent of a British brigade ) , plus a flank guard of a tank company , had halted seventeen kilometres to the north-west of the brigade 's current position , and that they were facing south-west . |
| 22 | But they were facing defeat at one stage , slumping to 55–6 in reply to Cound 's 129–4 with spinners Pete Wise and Mike Jones taking two wickets each . |
| 23 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 24 | He had just come in from sketching workmen out on the Geest , where they were laying water and gas pipes . |
| 25 | ‘ That was in the days when they were laying tracks on the ice ; in the days , too , when you could get married out there . ’ |
| 26 | They were fed ad libitum isocaloric diets with increasing protein values ( 5 , 8 , 10.5 , and 16% ) ; the dietary nitrogen was supplied by casein . |
| 27 | An orchestra was playing and they were served tea . |
| 28 | They were served coffee . |
| 29 | And David Gardner 's defence of processed hops does remind the listener powerfully of the arguments advanced by the brewers in the 1960s when they were replacing cask ale with keg beer . |
| 30 | That 's why I laughed when they were said Terry Waite would need counselling . |