Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] and [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some people have previously worked in the English companies when they were privatised and have some direct experience , but the majority have not . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They despised the rest of the school population who passively did as they were told and called these the ‘ ear'oles ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |