Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 2 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 3 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 4 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 5 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 6 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 7 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 8 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 9 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 10 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 11 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 12 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 13 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 14 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 15 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 16 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |
| 17 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |