Example sentences of "they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 2 | Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) . |
| 3 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 4 | The waitress added up the modest sum , and then asked them regretfully if they were leaving the district for good . |
| 5 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 6 | At Notting Hill Gate , as they were leaving the car , they found their way impeded by a uniformed official of London Transport Underground that the woman who said the holidays were too long had got hold of and was complaining to . |
| 7 | ‘ The messier the better , ’ she said , as they were leaving the shop . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect we shall run into you again , as English people do in Rome , ’ she added , as they were leaving the tea room . |
| 9 | On the following day the radical mayors of Moscow and Leningrad , respectively Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak , similarly announced to the congress that they were leaving the party . |
| 10 | They were leaving the village , crossing the Avon . |
| 11 | With it safely in his pocket , they were leaving the foyer , Luce leading the way , when a voice cried , ‘ Well , hello ! |
| 12 | As they were leaving the producer paused and smiled at her . |
| 13 | Gerry Kerr who steered the Glenavy side to a mid-table position in Division I A of the Amateur League after they were relegated the previous season , has been told his services are no longer required . |
| 14 | No they came up pretty soon in it , when they were digging the road but |
| 15 | they were digging the road |
| 16 | They were to create the Indian diasporas of Guyana and Trinidad , of the Indian Ocean islands and the Pacific , and the smaller Chinese colonies in Cuba , Peru and the British Caribbean . |
| 17 | Suddenly they were wearing the colours of the rainbow . |
| 18 | Peter and Nona had their backs against a wall , they were facing the man who seemed to inhabit the tunnel . |
| 19 | A sheet of rain had come down then , a hard , gusty shower , while they were laying the squares of turf back in place , and Adam had said something about the rain making the grass grow quickly , the rain being on their side . |
| 20 | In which case those who perpetrated this outrage on British culture are in good company , whether they were flying the flag of ‘ racism and sexism ’ or not . |
| 21 | They were flying the route taken by the heavy bombers 50 years before . |
| 22 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 23 | For all I knew , they were flying the plane that I now knew was never going to make it to Bangkok . |
| 24 | They were renouncing the wholesale cruelty which , with a uniform and general severity of punishment treated all , the unfortunate dupe as well as the designing knave , alike as guilty . |
| 25 | The government was also particularly anxious in an election year to ensure both that the benefits of the scheme were recognised and that accusations that they were encouraging the development of a two tier service were not substantiated . |
| 26 | No sooner had Courtaulds read the comments by our Metro 's previous keeper , Jill Stanton — that the material had developed ‘ bobbly sweater syndrome ’ ( 25 July ) than they were inspecting the offending objects with microscopes and pronouncing themselves shocked and baffled . |
| 27 | Ratagan had procured beer for them from somewhere with magical ease , and they were supping the malty liquid from brimming tankards as they went . |
| 28 | And underneath the lofty claims that they were fulfilling the will of God and freeing the kingdom from oppression and tyranny , and the open attacks on the regent 's actions , there were still hints of the desire to come to terms , which reflect their awareness of how shaky the basis of their self-defence was . |
| 29 | His wife said from their Humberside in the UK : ‘ I spoke to Ricky on Christmas Day and they were cooking the mince pies . |
| 30 | He stopped at an ale-house to leave further messages with Tab the tinker for Benedicta and Watkin ; they were to lock the church after morning Mass and , if the widow felt so inclined , she should take Bonaventure back to her own house . |