Example sentences of "[adv] they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 2 | My hand shook , spilling my hot milk all down my flannelette frills , and before long they were lying in a heap at my feet . |
| 3 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 4 | Perhaps they were influenced by the ghoulish sets and sound effects , Christopher Lee 's cape and the ‘ blood capsules ’ they bought to disgust their pals . |
| 5 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 6 | So they were appointed under the seal of office of the seneschal , not the great seal of England . |
| 7 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 8 | So they were left with a tantalising hint : heat , yes ; neutrons , no . |
| 9 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 10 | Soon they were passing through a domed concourse , ruddily lit and scented with smouldering camphor — then through another . |
| 11 | Very soon they were acquired by a developer and are now being marketed as individual office units . |
| 12 | Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health . |
| 13 | Soon they were pulling into the car park . |
| 14 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 15 | Soon they were driving into the hospital car park . |
| 16 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 17 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 18 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 19 | Tonight they were going to the theatre . |
| 20 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 21 | Elsewhere they were associated with a spontaneous and far-reaching social revolution in which the moving spirits were the CNT , the left wing of the UGT and , in Catalonia , the POUM — a small but vigorous anti-Stalinist communist party . |
| 22 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 23 | As described earlier , in Ipswich a multi-disciplinary psychogeriatric team maintained involvement with all patients whether or not they were admitted to an institution . |
| 24 | Whether or not they were promoted to the level of policy disagreement , everyone knows precisely what differences of opinion exist between Number 10 and Number 11 . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 26 | By the second century B.C. they were experimenting with a volcanic earth found near Vesuvius and named pozzolana after the town of Pozzuoli there . |
| 27 | He kept pupils moving so quickly they were running past the cage and had to join the queue again to get a proper look . |
| 28 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 29 | When the MIGS flew into Fairford yesterday they were accompanied by a general to show how important the display is to them . |
| 30 | Their colonies , looking like so many miniature hacksaw blades , often completely covered bedding planes , and usually they were found in the absence of other kinds of fossils . |