Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't quite imagine where they were getting them from . |
| 2 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 3 | European pressure on the USA to extend its trade liberalization policy grew after reports on April 11 that some West German companies including the Volkswagen car manufacturing company had complained that COCOM regulations were preventing them from supplying machinery to their newly acquired factories in East Germany . |
| 4 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 5 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 7 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 8 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 9 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 10 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 11 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |
| 12 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |
| 13 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 14 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |