Example sentences of "they were [verb] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shows that one of the major factors that distinguishes the films of motorways and bends in roads from those of junctions is that they were rated as having less to see in them . |
| 2 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 3 | Some people have previously worked in the English companies when they were privatised and have some direct experience , but the majority have not . |
| 4 | Wilkie discussed the Camargue with M. Grimaud , whose cousin had a domaine there , asked Monique and Marie-Claire politely what they were studying and elicited more information in half-an-hour than Frederica had done in several months . |
| 5 | They despised the rest of the school population who passively did as they were told and called these the ‘ ear'oles ’ . |
| 6 | They 're sense of self is such that they do n't see that they have a self to assert , perhaps , or that they are not valid enough as a person , which obviously must stem erm from their early childhood experiences , and from the adults that surrounded them when they were growing and developing that sense of who they are . |
| 7 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |