Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's , that 's what I meant if we were make them |
| 2 | The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back . |
| 3 | If they were sacked they stood to lose old-age and long-service premiums . |
| 4 | The men were enjoying them : |
| 5 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 6 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 7 | Chebrikov was particularly scathing about the ‘ informal groups ’ that had been attracting public attention , warning that ‘ extremist elements ’ had worked their way into the leaderships of some of them and that they were encouraging them to engage in actions ‘ objectively against the interests of our society ’ . |
| 8 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |
| 9 | LIBERTAS software for full computer management of the library 's resources was also introduced , and the first modules , dealing with catalogues , were completed they make possible fast retrieval of information on published literature . |
| 10 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 11 | A large number of rather similar ‘ irregular issues ’ are known and it is suggested that one or more private ‘ mints ’ were producing them . |
| 12 | Er and the Italians at that time were producing them under licence from . |
| 13 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 14 | Before many weeks had passed we were to lose them both … ’ |
| 15 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 16 | Yeah they were building them when we got there were n't they ? |
| 17 | Then they were touching them , and the fierce thrust of his tongue confirmed his spoken answer as his hands moved upward from her hips to the bare skin of her midriff , his fingers trailing fire across her flesh when they travelled round to her back and from there up to the smoothness of her shoulders . |
| 18 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 19 | Since the early days of HNV baits , however , when relatively few anglers were using them , the popularity of carp fishing and the massive increase in carp waters have rendered pre-baiting with HNV baits redundant . |
| 20 | As it was difficult to make stamps adhere to records without paper labels , by 1916 all disc companies were using them . |
| 21 | I thought you 'd got a bit carried away when you were drawing them . ’ |
| 22 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |
| 23 | New Order were proving they could compete with the largely faceless and bland disco outpourings of the major corporations , and also that it was possible to channel their personal intensity through this format . |
| 24 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 25 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 26 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 27 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 28 | As they were knocking them down , Corman was following me around with the camera directing my speaking parts . |
| 29 | As Bf109s were reported they stayed well above the other squadron , but to no avail . |
| 30 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |