Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues . |
| 2 | If they dipped into that , they were knowingly making themselves insolvent . |
| 3 | Lear is to be blamed for believing Goneril and Regan , yet since they were merely flattering his debased scale of values , in a test which he had himself devised , it is not surprising that he did so . |
| 4 | Staffordshire were also the Minor County champions in 1991 , but after three matches in 1992 they were still awaiting their first win . |
| 5 | Well , I do n't agree what they did , but they were only killing their own , their own kind , were n't they ? |
| 6 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 7 | It is true however that the January survey which is erm which took place very recently erm , there were only fifteen vacancies in the subject in this in the country overall , it 's also true to say that of thirteen thousand one hundred religious education specialists in the country , only half of them were actually teaching their own subject . |