Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were on holiday from school , she and Francis used to came to Billy 's cottage and sit in the kitchen , drinking tea . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | The defending officer , Lt Neil Brown , said : ‘ Most of their drug abuse took place while they were at home on leave . ’ |
| 4 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 5 | A post-mortem examination revealed she was HIV positive and health chiefs decided to alert women who had given birth at the hospital and might feel they were at risk of infection . |
| 6 | Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers . |
| 7 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 8 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 9 | Erm we boys , my father used to s what we call stud our shoes , and they were round sort of metal studs , and these were sort of knocked into your soles to save the leather . |
| 10 | She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 12 | Anyway they were in contact with APEX and then they came to see us , that was on a Monday , the same day there were mass meetings at Chapter Road and Cobbold Road . |
| 13 | She was n't quite sure who deepened the kiss , or who moved until they were in contact from head to toe and she felt the pulsing of his hard , warm body . |
| 14 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 15 | Welfare benefits paid to strikers ' families , who are , of course , not on strike but certainly impoverished , were to be docked 12 on the assumption they were in receipt of strike pay . |
| 16 | The wealthy Liverpool businessman never intended to rebuild the complete castle , but to recreate the ruined remains as they were in Liverpool before demolition in 1725 . |
| 17 | One of the problems , he said , was that staff were resisting a plan to relocate them from local offices , where they were in touch with industry , to remote district offices . |
| 18 | Where this is the case men have thought that they were in touch with reality . |
| 19 | They were in control of life and never let it buffet them about . |
| 20 | They were in control from start to finish , with Don Caskie scoring the first try midway through the first half . |
| 21 | Treatment with sedative antihistamines was continued throughout the study if they were in use on entry . |
| 22 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 23 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |
| 24 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 25 | They were in fact over school-age and only involved in the distribution of Ecstasy . |
| 26 | I am not sure if they were in fact in use at the end . |
| 27 | They were like generals in command of armies , receiving , sorting , dispatching thousands of vehicles in an irregular flow , fighting their great enemy , blockade . |