Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were punished together by the priest in black in the crypt of the French Catholic church in Leicester Square , its sombreness relieved only by Jean Cocteau 's androgynous wall-paintings ; they were allowed no flowers and no music . |
| 2 | They were hunched together in the middle of the room . |
| 3 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 4 | Raine refused to speak to Diana 's mother in church even though they were seated together in the same pew . |
| 5 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 6 | The non-provided schools , unless they were absorbed totally into the public system , had a choice of status . |
| 7 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 8 | Although many of the yeniçeri forgot all about their origins and became fanatical Muslims , behaving oppressively to their former compatriots when they were posted back into the Balkans , others , like Sokolović , kept in contact with their people and tried to help them . |
| 9 | They were killed almost to the man . |
| 10 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 11 | The Special Squads were the Nazis ' ‘ most demonic crime ’ , representing ‘ an attempt to shift on to others — specifically the victims — the burden of guilt , so that they were deprived even of the solace of innocence ’ . |
| 12 | I have suggested that they were replaced ecologically by the rhynchonellids . |
| 13 | They were appointed initially for the World Cup and then reappointed to take Wales through this season 's Five Nations Championship . |
| 14 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 15 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 16 | Hutchesons/Aloysians ' victory by 31-13 at Union Park against Corstorphine was not enough and they were edged out of the race on points difference . |
| 17 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 18 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 19 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 20 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 21 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 22 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 23 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 24 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 25 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 26 | But whether they were related directly to the main body of the puzzle was not yet clear . |
| 27 | But , unless some of the coins had mortar still adhering to them , it would be more correct to assume that they were lost either during the demolition or in the occupation which followed . |
| 28 | Activists encamped for two months in the square until they were cleared away by the police at the end of May . |
| 29 | ‘ They were togged out to the nines . ’ |
| 30 | They were motivated also by the determination of the militant leadership not to be diverted by such activities from the pursuit of better wages and working conditions for their members . |