Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 2 | In 1985 the rules governing the practices of solicitors were amended to allow them to advertise . |
| 3 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 4 | Spain 's dominant classes were therefore permitted the time and opportunity for marshalling their powerful opposition to the very measures that were intended to weaken them . |
| 5 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 6 | The Leeds local data pointed up a mismatch between predominantly individualized learning tasks and the collaborative setting in which children were expected to undertake them . |
| 7 | A rather similar pattern can be seen in the very different circumstances of the inter-war economic depression , when the Household Means Test meant effectively that young working adults living in the same household as their unemployed parents were expected to support them financially . |
| 8 | They were sent to schools and teachers were expected to teach them . |
| 9 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 10 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
| 11 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 12 | In the next few days there was much wild talk about the dangers of allowing Labour to take office , and many wild schemes were designed to avert them . |
| 13 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 14 | As a solitary concession , non-Brahmins were permitted to watch them dance . |
| 15 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 16 | The regulations on the rules of origin of ACP products were simplified to make them more transparent and more rapid . |
| 17 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 18 | Artillery , Engineer , and Signals regiments , and its logistic corps , were tailored to support them . |
| 19 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 20 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 21 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 22 | They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | In Sweden arrangements for the control of foreign affairs were complex and unstable during the period 1720–72 ; but strenuous efforts were made to improve them and Gustavus III 's coup d'état in the latter year increased their efficiency . |
| 24 | Once the schedules had been designed , plans were made to pilot them . |
| 25 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 26 | Not only were they excluded from most professions , but efforts were made to prevent them acquiring land and to restrict their access to secondary and higher education . |
| 27 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 28 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 29 | Since not all of the clergy were capable of this , model sermons were produced to help them . |
| 30 | TODAY launched a campaign after customers claimed high-pressure selling techniques were used to push them into signing misleading agreements . |