Example sentences of "they were [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd received a number of reports suggesting that the secret police were losing troops as , fearing the end was at hand , they were leaving their posts and returning to their families and homes . |
| 2 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 4 | Now you see , i is n't is n't it remarkable that the Jehovah 's Witness tried to lead us astray , but the minute Christ came in they were wasting their time . |
| 5 | This early writing by abolitionists on their own history also gave them assurance that they were vindicating their country . |
| 6 | Her sisters Sarah and Jane , her senior by six and four years respectively , were already spending mornings in the downstairs classroom when she was born and by the time Diana was ready to join them they were packing their bags for boarding-school . |
| 7 | They no doubt thought that they were fulfilling their filial duty by providing her with an outing and ‘ treat ’ . |
| 8 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 9 | There were nine men around the fire , and they were cooking their terrible food . |
| 10 | She said they were quite untrustworthy and cut off peoples ' arms and legs unnecessarily in order to keep their hand in , demonstrate their skills and prove that they were earning their money . |
| 11 | They were gathering their things together , ready to go . |
| 12 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 13 | Rather , they were telling their wives what politics was all about . |
| 14 | Boro had fallen behind to a fourth minute penalty on a ground where they were seeking their first win since 1938 . |
| 15 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 16 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 17 | The Rochdale parents said they were reliving their whole trauma along with the parents of Orkney . |
| 18 | They were living their memories , I thought , here and now . |
| 19 | The Webbs ' failure to pick up the proposal would have been forgivable but for one thing ; and that is their criticism of his failure to comprehend before they were born their theory of rent — a theory which , whatever might be its academic merits , provided no practical help to Governments . |
| 20 | The voters were by then more hostile to Mrs Thatcher and her government , but they were switching their support to Labour , not to the third parties . |
| 21 | While they were drinking their tea and talking about the filthy tap water , there was a knock on the outside door . |
| 22 | When 1 visited Hall and his colleagues there they were beginning their most ambitious project yet . |
| 23 | IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late . |
| 24 | Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension . |
| 25 | Mrs Beckett was one of four MPs to announce they were throwing their hats into the ring for the post of deputy leader . |
| 26 | Just seven days earlier , they were warned their new-born babies may have been tagged wrongly when a fire alarm went off . |
| 27 | They were to give their advice free as the Government would pay for the work . |
| 28 | The Danzigers and Eberhardts thought that they were choosing their social isolation . |
| 29 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 30 | They were flashing their lights . |