Example sentences of "[adv] they [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps they were looking the other way . ’ |
| 2 | But er they grew up and since I 'm the youngest , obviously they were earning a little bit of money in some way . |
| 3 | Together they were to form the essential background to the most important British variant of fascism . |
| 4 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 5 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 6 | A few minutes later they were given a direct order to go to bed — and if you disobey a direct order you 're instantly put on report . |
| 7 | Erm that was Mark and Jeremy and unless somebody owns up they were pinging a dried pea at Lee and nearly hit Mr ! |
| 8 | They kept ringing up their former colleagues , making out they were selling the new Royal Life Unit Trust , that they had risen above OTC dodginess . |
| 9 | Ironically they were playing a warring couple on stage in John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger at the time . |
| 10 | I think that here they were undertaking an additional obligation or rendering themselves liable to an increased detriment . |
| 11 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 12 | His funeral was held at Our Lady and St Josephs at his wife Kerry 's request because the parish priest , Father Peter Burke , was a friend of the couple , who met on a trip to the French shrine of Lourdes where they were helping the sick . |
| 13 | England 's second encounter with West Indies was at Adelaide , where they were given a good start of 121 by Broad and Athey . |
| 14 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |