Example sentences of "were [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |
| 2 | They were off running the travel business and having affairs with all those couriers and secretaries and people while the wives prayed and cooked and had babies . ’ |
| 3 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 4 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
| 5 | The owners signalled how serious they were about halting the pay spiral last year when they first detached labour negotiations from the baseball commissioner , Fay Vincent , and then detached Mr Vincent from his job . |
| 6 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 7 | I wondered what the chances were of bedding the girl . |
| 8 | As there were now objections to receiving them , and as the guardians were not allowed to send out-patients from the workhouse , the committee were considering stopping the payments and providing an adequate infirmary at the workhouse — an arrangement which might have ‘ many advantages , pecuniary and otherwise ’ . |
| 9 | At one stage , the organizers were considering calling the race off . |
| 10 | Mr Stevens said yesterday the Phillips were considering amending the diversion so the path skirted the plantation instead of going through it , and he hoped residents would approve the change . |
| 11 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 12 | As to the Government 's position on the green form scheme , my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said that instead of an arrangement unique to the immigration appellate system , whereby public funds finance two sources of free advice — UKIAS and green form — they were considering concentrating the provision of free advice through UKIAS , so that only that organisation would be publicly funded to give advice . |
| 13 | By a 6:3 vote the court overturned a pair of decisions from 1987 and 1989 which had excluded " victim impact " evidence — concerning the character of the victim and the suffering of their survivors — from juries which were considering imposing the death penalty . |
| 14 | Several unsuccessful companies announced that they were considering challenging the commission 's decisions in court . |
| 15 | In a recent survey , 70 per cent of respondents were against restricting the provision of nonessential treatments ( Davies 1991 ) . |
| 16 | Looking back , I realize how fortunate we were in finding the place we did . |
| 17 | The greatest differences between the groups were in understanding the different ideas ( propositions ) in a sentence , in dealing with problems of grammatical unpredictability , and most simply of all , in recognising words . |
| 18 | Attempts by the Church to solve trade problems like Third World Debt were branded ‘ political ’ by those whose intrinsic interest were in preserving the economic status quo . |
| 19 | Somebody in the office proved how resourceful they were by organising the help of three local firemen and together they completed the job in time for Monday morning . |
| 20 | and er , it was er , the others were by having the lads and getting the trees down , er the extra wood that they got out of the er , out of the tree |