Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] them [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said clients keen to move into Britain have had deals ‘ in the pipeline ’ but were delaying them out of concern about a Labour government 's competition policies or in the hope of further interest rate cuts . |
| 2 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 3 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 4 | The boats were sparkling with the glitter of the ‘ caller ou , ’ as our fishwives call them ; and busily the men were throwing them out from among the nets into the creels , while the shore was lined by brawny-armed women clothed in waterproof aprons , who with marvellous rapidity were gutting the fish , and packing them in barrels with abundance of salt between each layer . |
| 5 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 6 | Peter Davies , Eastbourne 's captain , told his players on the eve of the event that they were stroking the ball well and that they could upset the odds but added he was booking them out of their hotel . |
| 7 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 9 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 10 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 11 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 12 | I 've known him since he was knee-high to a schoolmaster and … well , maybe he 's secretly taken to lenses and was trying them out on you . |
| 13 | The start of the second half promised an exciting come back after Whelan scored , but it was n't to be : Leeds ' play became increasingly frenetic and desperate , and Sunderland players kept going over like someone in the crowd was working them over with a machine gun . |