Example sentences of "were [v-ing] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er yeah the children from school were singing in their Easter bonnets and Easter hats . |
| 2 | The Trade Union workshop addressed some important issues , although women admitted to feeling apathetic and emotional about the various campaigns they were waging in their workplaces . |
| 3 | Radio Bangladesh reported on April 2 that a number of the refugees were dying in their camps in Bangladesh as a result of " diarrhoea , acute respiratory problems , gastric and gynaecological diseases " . |
| 4 | The DEEP 's , who once had an empire teeming with workers , were dying in their hundreds . |
| 5 | The walls on either side of the stairwell were dazzling in their brightness . |
| 6 | And they were fitting in their own until they got up and running . |
| 7 | When his trophy fell ungratefully to the floor it almost certainly woke up comics like Chaplin and Keaton and Morecambe while they were turning in their graves . |
| 8 | Ariel wept and nearly stumbled , for her own leg was sore too , but she kept on going , determined to take Sycorax away from the men who were camping in their compound , drawing water from the stream , building fire on their hearthstones , and beginning to roast a spitted shoat to eat . |
| 9 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 10 | Mum and Dad were dozing in their chairs but Dad opened his eyes as I sat down and asked if I 'd enjoyed the picture . |
| 11 | While the middleweights were sparring away , the heavyweights of the All Black selector-coach battle were staying in their corners . |
| 12 | Two hours later , as they were hauling in their lines , a light drizzling snowstorm of ash began to fall . |
| 13 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 14 | In this group there were some wide discrepancies between what teachers were doing in their classrooms and what they said — and seemed to believe — they were doing . |
| 15 | Indeed , one critic of the exercise considered that ‘ the circular was a device which managed to make LEAs look as if they were failing in their duties , and thus allowed the DES to take the initiative ’ . |
| 16 | Dealers such as Jean Gismondi of Paris were unstinting in their praise of the chic it lent to the event . |
| 17 | Teachers involved in LAMP found the changes they were making in their teaching approaches were encouraging all their pupils to become more involved in their mathematics and to surpass traditional expectations at every level . |
| 18 | ‘ Put out your tongues , ’ he said brusquely to the wee ones , who were sitting in their best night clothes , with their hair newly brushed . |
| 19 | Elaine and George were sitting in their lounge watching South East at Six when the story of Louise Butler 's disappearance came on the air . |
| 20 | They were sitting in their chairs behind the cameras . |
| 21 | They were entertaining in their own home , not a restaurant . |
| 22 | Soon , other groups were following in their wake : the Clash , the Damned , X-Ray Spex , Siouxsie and the Banshees . |
| 23 | The artists were not following standard picture cycles but were indulging in their own fantasies and jokes , often amazingly smutty in the margins of pious liturgy . |
| 24 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 25 | James and his immediate circle had always regarded Scotland as a sideshow and while Mar , Mackintosh and Forster were engaging in their bloodless manoeuvring in the north , he had despatched the Duke of Ormonde [ or Ormond ] to make another attempt in the south-west . |
| 26 | Nineteen were sleeping in their parents ' beds . |
| 27 | ‘ Then the riot squad came in the middle of the night while the men were sleeping in their beds . |