Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were shot down in cold blood with their friends , by the KGB . ’ |
| 2 | They were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time . |
| 3 | They were standing around in frozen postures like a group caught when the music stops in a game of Statues . |
| 4 | They were coming over in bloody gangs , right , there was the little ducks , you know the ones with green heads , so we were giving them bread and then all of a sudden the other side |
| 5 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 6 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |