Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their parts , the RHA and the DHSS , since they were already implicated in the Banstead-Horton plan , were unlikely to jeopardize it by opposing the local exemption requested . |
| 2 | They were positively received in the parliaments of the six states that were to take the initiative in integration in the following decade . |
| 3 | The odds were always against Oxford at Villa Park … trailing by a goal from the first leg United were desperate for a flying start … they were nearly grounded in the opening minutes by Dean Saunders … |
| 4 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 5 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 6 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 7 | When they were both soaked in the greasy oil , she watched him pour the remainder of the bottle over the rubber sheet . |
| 8 | After much diligent searching , they were finally unearthed in the attic of the Manor House Museum in a box thought to contain a sewing machine . |
| 9 | The paradigms would n't shift because they were firmly fixed in the determination of the ‘ decision makers ’ to continue wielding their power . |
| 10 | Profoundly subordinate , and remote from the few voices of intellectual protest , trade unions could provide no effective challenge to bourgeois hegemony ; rather they were firmly embedded in the mystical pragmatism , rationalism , evolutionism and nationalism of the Victorian epoch . |
| 11 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 12 | Emily bit her lip , the girl was obviously in touch with Craig , perhaps they were even living in the same house . |
| 13 | They were just stored in the caverns |
| 14 | I remember Ivy telling me that she and Margaret were ill for a fortnight when something of the sort threatened them — and I doubt if they were also blasted in the affections … . |
| 15 | They were also put in the ‘ B ’ band . |
| 16 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 17 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 18 | Despite the 1984 break with the IMF , economic stringency measures remained in force though they were gradually reduced in the following years . |
| 19 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 20 | Cranleigh manager Roy Kelsey made a double substitution as Cranleigh battled to force extra time and they were almost rewarded in the final minutes , with Cann charging the ball down before the ever-dangerous Carpenter could place his shot . |
| 21 | Until recently , it contained a wide group of fish of the kind known generally as haplochromines : that is , they were once classed in the single genus ( see p. 124 ) Haplochromis within the family Cichlidae , though they are now generally placed in several different genera . |
| 22 | I used to wonder whether they were actually taking in the meaning of what I was saying , or just listening to the accent . |
| 23 | They were certainly patrolling in the region . |
| 24 | At the time of first detection , they were usually located in the transitional zone between the corpus and antrum . |
| 25 | They have survived because the way in which they are organised meant they were never included in the two-year Defence Ministry study which has led to the cuts . |
| 26 | Although several hundred detector users were present , they were quickly lost in the massive fields . |
| 27 | These are not my figures ; they were recently published in the Scottish newspapers , including the non-Conservative Daily Record . |
| 28 | He could hear the words as if they were still resonating in the dank air of the shower room . |
| 29 | The sun rose while they were still lying in the thorn . |
| 30 | The indigenous personnel , while they were fully trained in the specific features of their own parts of the process , were excluded from positions that gave access to the whole of the production process . |