Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 3 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |