Example sentences of "man were [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman and a man were packing a hamper , blankets and Wellingtons into the car . |
| 2 | The two men were enjoying a condition of harmony which had been unknown in all the previous years . |
| 3 | During a scene in W C Fields ' The Bank Dick in which men were digging a trench in the road I became aware that my feet felt cold and wet . |
| 4 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 5 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 6 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 7 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 8 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 9 | Two men were building a warden 's post with sandbags by a shop selling corsets and combinations . |
| 10 | His men were keeping a watch on the comings and goings of the terrorists . |