Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led him to insist that those who had , however tenuously , dedicated their lives to God in religious vows were bound by them beyond recall . |
| 2 | These confessions were withdrawn by the accused because they claimed they were extracted from them under duress , including beatings . |
| 3 | Their 19th-century kings , with accompanying royal courts , were sent to them from north-west Europe . |
| 4 | In the distance a huge truck was advancing towards them on collision course , its headlights blazing . |
| 5 | It was forced upon them by experience . |
| 6 | But even in the nineteenth century , the drawing-room ballads and theatre tunes ‘ of the bourgeoisie ’ were heard and reproduced by many workers , just as ‘ art ’ music was regaled to them by brass bands and in promenade concerts ; while ownership of ‘ folk ’ songs would be a matter of dispute between ‘ peasants ’ , industrial workers , petty bourgeois writers and artisans , and patrician collectors . |
| 7 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |
| 8 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |