Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 2 | Then Patrick changed the subject and when they were all away on the new tack he took Rain aside . |
| 3 | ‘ No , they were all completely off the cuff . |
| 4 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 5 | Another landing when they were close together for a moment , and then another descent . |
| 6 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 7 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 8 | In some extraordinary manner the children seemed better able to cope with their parents ' injuries when they were well away from the hospital . |
| 9 | They were jealous both of the United States and of the West German economic miracle , yet at the same time , " joy through work " was not " a British ideal " as it was in West Germany . |
| 10 | From the sounds of their voices it was obvious they were both somewhere near the centre , she decided . |
| 11 | It would have been different if the other girls had been in the flat , but they were both away for the weekend . |
| 12 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 13 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 14 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 16 | Vaughan then told Bobby , whilst they were alone together at the bar , that Minton was very much in love with him . |
| 17 | They were safe enough for the present . |
| 18 | Chinese envoys in Europe and America did little negotiating : they were concerned mainly with the protection of Chinese abroad and with the collection of information and the purchase of guns , ships and machinery for their government . |
| 19 | On both occasions the press reported a draw or a very close thing because they were concerned only with the mind , the argument . |