Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 2 | Half the saints in Paradise were facing them in rows from the rounded west wall and along the south wall stretched a hieratic representation of the life of St. Nicholas . |
| 3 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 4 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 5 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |
| 6 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 7 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 8 | A scattered crowd of locals was eyeing them in silence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 11 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 12 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 13 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 14 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 17 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 18 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 19 | It was a tray , a black plastic garden seed tray that we call a finds tray , and all then things he was finding he was putting them in there . |
| 20 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 21 | People are encouraged to look at the wills but constant handling was putting them in jeopardy . |
| 22 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 23 | The JAC was the central body for a number of local juvenile advisory committees and its chief function was to organize them in connection with each labour exchange in the area . |
| 24 | He was dipping them in his tea yesterday . |
| 25 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |