Example sentences of "[noun] they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 2 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 3 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 4 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 5 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 6 | Halliday had read the works of Wilhelm Reich , the German Freudian/ Marxist psychologist-cum-sexual revolutionary whose works were by then rivalling Laing 's in the attention they were receiving across the revolutionary left and the underground . |
| 7 | COUNCIL workmen found a booby-trapped caravan yesterday on a site they were clearing after a court battle . |
| 8 | RAF Corporal John Williams and his wife Selina told the court they were driving past the layby and saw men were crouching behind two wooden boards , which made a v-shape on the ground . |
| 9 | With help from sympathetic resources they were hoping for a world-wide mailing of leaflets . |
| 10 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 11 | When Paneth and Peters tried to turn hydrogen into helium they were following in the traditions of the ancient alchemists who wanted to convert base metals into gold . |
| 12 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 13 | When police and soldiers resumed their search of the area around Cirencester Golf Course this morning they were looking for a body . |
| 14 | The next morning they were idling in the luxury of a long breakfast , enjoying the chatting in the warmth of the room , the tussocks in the white field outside the window stiff with frost , the only green grass the huge dark circles under the cypress trees , when a single shotgun blast came from the front room . |
| 15 | One morning they were sitting on the fence , waiting for the 9.15 , when Phyllis said , ‘ It 's going to London , where Father is . |
| 16 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 17 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 18 | And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats . |
| 19 | Admittedly many of them were hardly trained and lacked experience , and in addition they were operating in a more populated area with often unfriendly Arabs . |
| 20 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 21 | They climbed into the ambulance , David in the front with Greg , and Rachel and Nina in the back , and within minutes they were hurtling towards the company airfield accompanied by the two factory fire engines and the security vehicles . |
| 22 | Every flipping two minutes they were coming to the toilet . |
| 23 | Within minutes they were travelling under the motorway . |
| 24 | Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this . |
| 25 | He and his step-brother Philip Giles got separated from their parents on a ski-lift they were taking up the mountain side . |
| 26 | Appearing down Grizedale West , he had to override the transmission balance and after just two stages they were putting in a new gearbox . |
| 27 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 28 | At the end of the show they were racing through the theatre in search of parents and relations . ’ |
| 29 | It was November and the nights drawing in , and they went after tea , telling the nans they were going to a friend 's house to play with his electric trains . |
| 30 | In this way they were referring to the fact that Steffi Graf was the only top ten player there . |