Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 2 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 3 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 4 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 5 | The drovers disposed the cattle , tended them until the sale-day , and when they were sold delivered them to the farmers who had bought them . |
| 6 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 7 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 8 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 9 | The parents of children found to be suffering from any illness at a fieldworker 's visit were advised to take them to the nearest health facility for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 10 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 11 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 12 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 13 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 14 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 15 | These contributions are not shown in official statistics of educational expenditure , but in 1990 an attempt was made to quantify them by the Mail on Sunday , which commissioned a survey of a representative sample of primary schools by the National Foundation for Educational Research . |
| 16 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 17 | Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump . |
| 18 | The ambiguous status of blacks , as neither invaders nor indigenous Americans , caused some controversy but it was agreed to keep them within the overall campaign . |
| 19 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 20 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 21 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 22 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 23 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 24 | The pilot was hired to fly them in a chartered plane . ’ |
| 25 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
| 26 | Something about the man aroused the guard 's suspicions , so he was asked to accompany them to the frontier post for further questioning . |
| 27 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 28 | Obviously , no stranger was allowed to approach them after a performance , and certainly no gifts were to be accepted . |
| 29 | In an ensuing fight around Christmas time 1896 the police had swooped and arrested twenty-eight youths some of whom were found to be in possession of pistols , which was taken to link them to a young girl 's death — although this was some months later . |
| 30 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |