Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 2 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 7 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 8 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 9 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 10 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 11 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 12 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 13 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 14 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 15 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 16 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 17 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 18 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 19 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 20 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 21 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 28 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |