Example sentences of "of they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as the pair of them were passing through the doorway into the hall that Jake turned for a moment to catch Shiona 's eye . |
| 2 | Now the three of them were hovering in the reception area , arguing about what to do . |
| 3 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 4 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 5 | ‘ If the three of them were playing on the day , I think I 'd go to see Tranmere … ‘ |
| 6 | The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air . |
| 7 | One evening , when the two of them were sitting at the Rotonde , Beatrice , ‘ the lady of Montmartre ’ , entered with a handsome escort . |
| 8 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 9 | The three of them were sitting under a seat . |
| 10 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 11 | The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . |
| 12 | Both of them were rolling on the floor , fighting . |
| 13 | The two of them were walking by the Seine after a visit to some friends . |
| 14 | It was n't surprising that some of them were cracking under the strain . |
| 15 | One of them was complaining in a quiet , slow alto voice that her husband was in the habit of leaving everything lying on the floor ; books , socks , newspapers , even matches and pipes . |
| 16 | To be a eunuch was a curse ; even the sight of them was defiling to a Brahmin . |
| 17 | One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly . |
| 18 | I phoned seven companies at the end of September and not one of them was selling at the price advertised . |
| 19 | Two of the strangers stayed near me ; one of them was dancing on the spot to keep warm . |
| 20 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |