Example sentences of "[vb past] they [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points . |
| 2 | In particular women discovered they were treated with rare attention and understanding . |
| 3 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |
| 4 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 5 | ’ Nappy Wars ’ hit the headlines in January , when Peaudouce and Procter & Gamble announced they were moving to unbleached paper . |
| 6 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 7 | On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 . |
| 8 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 9 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 10 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 11 | it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way |
| 12 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 13 | Providers felt they were working against each other to capture trainees to ensure their own survival . |
| 14 | I thought they were getting on fine . ’ |
| 15 | At Barlow Clowes approximately £190m was lost by investors who thought they were investing in safe gilts , whereas in fact very few gilts were bought . |
| 16 | After lunch Joanna asked what kind of progress Sophie thought they were making with small animals . |
| 17 | Nadobenko , Gary Beneke of South Africa and John Charlesworth of the Britannia team broke clear on the circuit and with three laps left they were joined by Norwegian Ole Simensen . |
| 18 | Tonight the police said they are checking for any similarities with previous attacks . |
| 19 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 20 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 21 | Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night . |
| 22 | Pointing out the value of two Wessex machines at Leuchars during the recent bad weather , Mr MacDougall said they were involved on numerous occasions . |
| 23 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 24 | But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good . |
| 25 | Clinton said they were named after four ladies : Yolande , Mary , Isabel and Jeanne . |
| 26 | For example , Zuwaya said they were subjected to discriminatory conscription in Ajdabiya : those youths who shouted ‘ And we killed Pasha Naiz ’ , provoked Magharba to denounce Zuwaya to the commander of the garrison at Sirte . |
| 27 | Last night spokesmen for both Scottish Enterprise and the Irish Development Agency , said they were keeping in close touch with Digital over the review of their operations . |
| 28 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 29 | If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage . |