Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the early mechanical clocks were adjusted by comparing them with sundials . |
| 2 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 3 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 4 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 5 | You see if the girls were sent to taking them to other work . |
| 6 | He said you were gon na draw them for him . |
| 7 | I 'm really not Hey how about getting erm if I can get there early enough individual Christmas cakes they were gon na sell them for |