Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were based on textbook questions , some almost as printed , but slightly altered to make political points . |
| 2 | They were noticed during routine maintenance checks . |
| 3 | They were shot by government soldiers on their way home from attending an open air service in the manner of their religious faith in the hills nearby . |
| 4 | They believed they were operating with Government approval and even risked their lives to spy on Saddam . |
| 5 | ( They were presented with silver versions , engraved with their initials , as a reminder that the pen is mightier . ) |
| 6 | The influx of children evacuated from the cities after 1943 meant extra unproductive mouths to feed , and by the time they were followed by adult evacuees in any number the dislocation of the agricultural sector was beyond rapid repair . |
| 7 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 8 | He talked fast and fluently : everyone in television seemed to , Dexter reflected , as if they were born with cassette tapes in their mouths rather than tongues . |
| 9 | They were strapped into car seats in their parents Metro when it crashed into a Pontiac near Burford after heavy rain last September . |
| 10 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 11 | They were drinking from pewter tankards . |
| 12 | The peasantry of Telana had become involved in international trade , with the result that they were affected by world booms and slumps . |
| 13 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 14 | I have heard it said that they were built by Iron Age men in honour of Megan , a Celtic goddess . |
| 15 | They were diluted in culture medium and aliquots were stored at -20°C until the day of use . |
| 16 | They were joined by air experts who claimed that the disaster could have been avoided . |
| 17 | They were joined by Shadow Environment Secretary Brian Gould who says they 're determined to fight . |
| 18 | Although the military were used more sparingly than in period one — the government intervened to prevent their use in the South Wales coal dispute of 1910 , for example — they were despatched to South Wales during the national railway strike of 1911 , when fears of imminent revolution were rife . |
| 19 | Well er er quite a lot of peasants did join because they , presumably they were motivated by land reform , er it 's clear that that did happen |
| 20 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 21 | They claim they were acting in self defence . |
| 22 | Mills and Poole admit fighting with Wiltshire , but say they were acting in self defence . |
| 23 | They were dressed in leather jerkins and thick , woollen green and black skirts which the Scots call kilts . |
| 24 | They were led by secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa , who had warned : ‘ We are going to occupy Bisho . ’ |
| 25 | They were passing over North Gate Bridge , and below them the River Lee flowed on to Cork harbour and the open sea . |
| 26 | At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier . |
| 27 | The couple were crossing Park Vale Road in the town on their way home when they were seen by car driver David Buxton , of Brattenham Avenue , Easterside , Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | There were passing references to social services as investment but primarily they were seen in consumption terms . |
| 29 | The purpose of the study described in this chapter was to use these tapes to explore drivers ’ memories for these situations when they were viewed under laboratory conditions . |
| 30 | Those who 's homes were damaged , were just thankful to be alive , for many , there was nothing left at all , and they were moved to emergency shelters . |