Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 2 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 3 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
| 4 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 5 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 7 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 8 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 9 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the locals were having none of it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 15 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 16 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 17 | The police were driving her around Soweto , wanting her to identify key activists . |
| 18 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 19 | The thorns were cutting her to pieces . |
| 20 | After being rewarded for choosing A in the middle stage of training , the children were asked which of B and C they thought might bring reward . |
| 21 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 24 | At times the drums were missing us by inches , and there 's this man on board running up and down shouting , ‘ It 's your funeral ’ . |