Example sentences of "[conj] they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 2 | Somehow , somewhere , she got the impression that they were congratulating themselves on Martin and Rachel 's failure ; on their very irresponsible approach to Phoebe 's education . |
| 3 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 7 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 8 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 9 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 10 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 11 | And I was aware that they were doing something with my fire . |
| 12 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 13 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 14 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 15 | The people of the Beastline were ranged directly ahead , facing her , as she had asked , and they were watching her with animal stillness . |
| 16 | They were young , and they were carrying lots of papers . |
| 17 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 18 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 19 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 20 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 21 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 22 | The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests ! |
| 23 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 24 | Erm , I asked if they were having it in braille and then , and then er |
| 25 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 26 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 27 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 28 | But they was lying one on top the other , duck — and the little lad was beneath and upside down . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 30 | because they were paying it over here until we had to pay |