Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 2 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 3 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 4 | But it would be an even bigger surprise if Bulls were to slip up in their final game against Dunfermline Barr Electrics . |
| 5 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 6 | To accommodate a passenger , a second seat was installed in an open cockpit ( later glazed ) forward of the pilot ( as was done on NASM 's XP–59A ) and the VIPs or observers were strapped in for their first ride . |
| 7 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |
| 8 | The massacre happened shortly before 9am , when the workmen were getting out of their red van . |
| 9 | She 'd point up in the air , where the Gnats were zipping around on their little gliders , like little pointed flower petals in the sky . |
| 10 | A few more officers were drifting in from their various weekends , and the chatter turned to the likelihood of their being called out on an ‘ Agile Blade ’ exercise in the next few days . |
| 11 | The cavalry were toppled back on their own infantry , most of whom were never engaged . |
| 12 | Greenshanks were flying over to their night-time roost in the park . |
| 13 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 14 | Ray and her sister were baptized Catholics , but after their mother 's elopement in 1891 with Bernhard Berenson , the art critic , they were brought up by their Quaker grandmother , Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith . |
| 15 | When his bones were brought out of their air-conditioned home for me to glimpse , I was astonished at their lightness and frailty . |
| 16 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 17 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 18 | She felt they were slipping back to their earlier life . |
| 19 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 20 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 21 | Moreover , other territories were taken up with their own internal problems . |
| 22 | In the meantime , the aunts and cousins were put up in their usual caravans . |
| 23 | Then , still tied up , they were put back into their own car . |
| 24 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 25 | The ceremony was 6,000 miles from where Gail and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Dina , 11 , were gunned down in their luxury home in San Diego , California . |
| 26 | All the Mendoza children were roused out of their pallid apathy . |
| 27 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 28 | Once and if they learnt of what was going on in their own backgardens , they may change their views . |
| 29 | She was a big clumsy woman in middle age , her figure gone , a greedy eater , probably greedy about everything , greedy in the way clouds were greedy when they obscured the sun , just when she was sitting out in their neat little garden in Chadlington Road . |
| 30 | At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales . |