Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 3 | With another full evening of entertainment ahead , many of the passengers were probably doing the same , she realised , relishing the needle-sharp tingling of the water as it cascaded over her shoulders . |
| 4 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 5 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 6 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |