Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence .
2 The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction .
3 ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way .
4 By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves .
5 Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue .
6 Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers .
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