Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 2 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 3 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 4 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 5 | Thus Janet D. , the daughter of a cooper , and James R. , a chauffeur and the son of a flourmill warehouseman , were living at the same street number when they married in 1911 . |
| 6 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 7 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 8 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 9 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 10 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 11 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 12 | With this new development , the Brigham Young University team were replaying Paneth and Peters ' and Tanberg 's tactics of the 1920s and were moving towards the same road that , unknown to them , Fleischmann and Pons were following . |
| 13 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 14 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 15 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 16 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 17 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 18 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 19 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 20 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |
| 21 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 22 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 23 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 24 | Both beams were yellow , and they were arriving at the same rate . |
| 25 | Donna ( 5.1 ) and Sharon ( 4.10 ) were playing with the All sorts and had made sets with them placing the sets in columns . |
| 26 | Had the decision-makers been aware of the choices others were making during the same period , they would have perceived opportunities for more attractive courses of market action than those actually adopted . |
| 27 | I needed reassurance from many colleagues that they too were thinking along the same lines . |
| 28 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 29 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 30 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |