Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was telling them at school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 6 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 7 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 8 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 9 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 10 | He was reactivating them for life . |