Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were leaving to eat a curry washed down by whisky from the ex-Jesuit pal upon whose floor they were sleeping . |
| 2 | But the message went further for it was felt that the lesson to be learned was that living standards could be maintained if unity prevailed : ‘ With the help of the Trade Union Movement , mobilized by the TUC General Council , they were enabled to secure a victory which they could not have won if they were left to fight alone . ’ |
| 3 | The two small cars seated only 32 inside , and it has been speculated that they were intended to draw the trailers during summer operation . |
| 4 | They were intended to achieve a number of objectives . |
| 5 | They were intended to make the procedure more attractive and less expensive than before . |
| 6 | They were recorded using a Panasonic WV-CD1E miniature video camera fixed to the bonnet of the car directly in line with the driver and approximately 10cm in front of the bottom of the windscreen . |
| 7 | They were asked to choose a career at the wrong time ; there are more pressing issues at 18 years of age than careers . |
| 8 | They were asked to complete a questionnaire in order to quantify their smoking habit and to obtain information about possibly confounding factors such as skin pigmentation , sun exposure , age and sex . |
| 9 | They were asked to complete the diary for three to four weeks . |
| 10 | Finally they were asked to select the description that best fitted their pain from ‘ minor nuisance ’ , ‘ moderately severe ’ , and ‘ interferes with activities ’ . |
| 11 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 12 | Now the reason that erm they , they were trying to promote the use of tampons was that one could n't get cotton to make cotton wool and so it was n't possible any , any erm er erm sanitary garments that were made of cotton were commandeered and used for people in essential war work or the armed forces . |
| 13 | Essentially , they were trying to examine the progress , or indeed lack of progress , of the immigrant newcomers as they tried to settle into this physical and social landscape . |
| 14 | They were trying to tame the process that gives the hydrogen bomb its devastating power-the same process that ‘ fuels ’ the Sun and the stars . |
| 15 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |
| 16 | Anyway , they were trying to keep the children from bothering the Lord . |
| 17 | Three days ago they were trying to dodge a massacre in Bosnia , now despite half their families being slaughtered they seem happy to play in the mists of an Oxfordshire morning nearly two thousand miles from home . |
| 18 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 19 | I sensed they were trying to make a statement with their carefree attitude : if we ca n't do anything else , we are going to enjoy this anniversary . |
| 20 | She said when she got back from court they were trying to change the locks . |
| 21 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 22 | They were seeking to establish the link between blood temperature and someone 's relative mental ability , whereby if you know one you can estimate the other . |
| 23 | Swindon lost Hockaday with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time as they were beginning to make an impression on the game . |
| 24 | Not only was this good news for TV science fiction it was also good news for the BBC , at a time when they were beginning to feel the effects of an increasingly powerful competitor — ITV . |
| 25 | They were beginning to attract a penumbra of gallery-goers , as though they were offering a guided tour . |
| 26 | Only after they were built did the Manager of Shawcraft ask me why I had n't made the base more cone-shaped . |
| 27 | Whether they were motivated to follow the campaign for reinforcement , vote-guidance , information , or excitement . |
| 28 | They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning — their last official tour . |
| 29 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 30 | They were also exercising their right in keeping with the loyalty with which they were born , as they were helping to rebuild a security station . |