Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey says nobody knows whether they let it out accidentally , or were getting their own back on Sykes for wasting a whole weekend . |
| 2 | Other entrants had been apprenticed to farriers , druggists , and so on , or were following their fathers in practice . |
| 3 | Yet problems were emerging with other transport modes that were discouraging their use within BP . |
| 4 | People who were going in for fines and just daft shoplifting and that were getting their bairns taken away . |
| 5 | Every one had to be taken out and held down while we picked off the ants that were sinking their jaws between the scales . |
| 6 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 7 | He glanced at the cloud of mayflies that were dancing their joyful zigzags near His skull . |
| 8 | In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall . |
| 9 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 10 | But worst of all these tactical disabilities was the flanking fire that was crippling their frontal assaults the moment they debouched into open ground . |
| 11 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 12 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 13 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 14 | Benefit of the Doubt must be given that all employed by the Grand Canyon were brain damaged at birth and were given their bureaucratic procedure in India . |
| 15 | The Barbarians , who were actually Celts and were given their cruel name by their invaders , transported their stuff by sea or by horse and cattle ( and had links with Europe , incidentally ) , the Romans built roads . |
| 16 | Last season was the result of complacency among our players and the vengeful attitude of most of the league who thought the scum should have won the it and were getting their revenge for them . |
| 17 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 18 | They had bought their first house and were expecting their first baby . |
| 19 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 20 | Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor . |
| 21 | Though an experienced skier , Pat and her friends had got caught in a blizzard and were making their way to shelter when Pat 's skis plunged into deep snow . |
| 22 | Party elders were concerned that the younger generation of intellectuals took no interest in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought and were neglecting their political studies . |
| 23 | Then two of the Koi and a couple of Orfe began to have problems swimming and were wagging their heads and going backwards . |
| 24 | The speech indicated that the Khmers Rouges had abandoned plans to seize power by force of arms , and were directing their efforts to improving their image in the countryside . |
| 25 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 26 | Mandeville and the others had now drawn their swords and were cutting their way through . |
| 27 | They both ate hungrily , and when they had finished , and were sipping their cafés noirs , and the tiny glasses of wonderful rough marc de bourgogne , Isobel leaned back with a smile . |
| 28 | Rohan and Jacques had arrived when the two girls returned , and were sipping their aperitifs while Monique put the finishing touches to her meal . |
| 29 | In essence then , subjects were asked to manage a competitive firm facing spot price uncertainty for a total of eight periods , and were paid their average realized profit from so doing . |
| 30 | ‘ People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us , ’ said Ken . |