Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 2 | A hundred and twenty people have been killed after terrorists exploded a bomb in the cockpit of a plane they were trying to highjack in South China . |
| 3 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 4 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 5 | But the court rejected the submissions that , as the sole owners of the property , the defendants could not steal from themselves and that they were bound to succeed under section 2(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1968 ( appropriation in the belief that the taker would have the owner 's consent ) . |
| 6 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 7 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 8 | They were allowed to drink at work ? |
| 9 | They , like the enclave-protectors , would run the risk of becoming targets for Serb sanctions-busters , especially if they were allowed to fight in order to do their job properly . |
| 10 | They were allowed to appear on TV and the barriers to professional publicity had been removed . |
| 11 | They was only , they 'd either got to pay for accommodation at a lodging house or go to the workhouse , they called them then , which is the casual ward , and at the casual ward they were required to bath on admission , which a lot of them did n't like , they were compelled to do certain work . |
| 12 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 13 | For a minority of educated , ambitious women the choice they were forced to make between marriage and work was an agonising one . |
| 14 | Would their behaviour alter dramatically if they were left to hunt for food in the wild ? |
| 15 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 16 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 17 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 18 | ‘ But they were going to wait for Floy to get back ! |
| 19 | Little groups stood about talking of the war or Brighton or what they were going to cook for supper . |
| 20 | Erm form D One , the pink one , er there was no reporting timescales , weekly intervals er or whether they were going to report on completion . |
| 21 | ‘ Er , ’ said Dorcas , ‘ well , they were going to look for Grandson , 39 , and we ca n't be sure that — ’ |