Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 2 | Although police responded with tear gas , they were instructed by the newly elected city Mayor , Sharon Pratt Dixon , not to aggravate the situation by making arrests . |
| 3 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 4 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 5 | Together he and Lij Yasu now raised an army and occupied Magdala , where they were besieged on the almost impregnable mountain-top . |
| 6 | Oh and they were working in the there where that job centre is now it was a big pub . |
| 7 | And they were sitting on the only two chairs at the table . |
| 8 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 9 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |