Example sentences of "[prep] they were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most of them were escaping from conventional regimental discipline , they did n't fully appreciate that they were running into a much more exacting type of discipline . |
| 2 | The two of them were drooping by then , in reaction from their long and laborious walk home , and sleepy from the wine mulled for them with their supper . |
| 3 | You found them everywhere and in the sun all of them were beginning to be too big for their blue jeans and jackets that they could never fill when they were on the bum and hungry . |
| 4 | Some of them were waving to friends on shore . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and they said that some of them were thinking of moving , but |
| 7 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 8 | All of them were looking at me . |
| 9 | Now the three of them were hovering in the reception area , arguing about what to do . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now to see how many of them were missing in London . |
| 13 | All of them were lying to men , and yet reaching out to offscreen lovers . |
| 14 | ‘ If the three of them were playing on the day , I think I 'd go to see Tranmere … ‘ |
| 15 | Some of them were whispering to each other . |
| 16 | One evening , when the two of them were sitting at the Rotonde , Beatrice , ‘ the lady of Montmartre ’ , entered with a handsome escort . |
| 17 | The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The three of them were sitting under a seat . |
| 20 | Once , when the three of them were sitting in Lewis 's rooms , Lewis happened to refer to philosophy as ‘ a subject ’ . |
| 21 | The four of them were sitting in armchairs , Bambi talking to Daffodil , Mercer to Filmer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 26 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 27 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 28 | Both of them were rolling on the floor , fighting . |
| 29 | The two of them were walking by the Seine after a visit to some friends . |
| 30 | Since the study by Vawter ( 1972 ) , the old problems of inspiration and inerrancy have largely been given a rest by Catholic theologians ; perhaps for sheer weariness and relief , but perhaps also because from the late 1960s many of them were theologizing in exciting new university contexts and learning the arcane language of philosophical hermeneutics . |