Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [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 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 3 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 6 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 7 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 8 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 9 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 10 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 11 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 12 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 13 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 14 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 15 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 16 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 17 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 18 | He urged them to recognize that by not understanding the thought of India they were depriving themselves of the opportunity of serving India . |
| 19 | Shouts and curses echoed across the vault , and then they were hurling themselves down the steps . |
| 20 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 21 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |