Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er and the Italians at that time were producing them under licence from . |
| 3 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 4 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 5 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 6 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 7 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 8 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 9 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 10 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 11 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 12 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 13 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 14 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 15 | They were selling them off cheap . |
| 16 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 17 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 18 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 19 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 20 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) . |
| 24 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 25 | I ca n't quite imagine where they were getting them from . |
| 26 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 27 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 28 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 29 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 30 | 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 . |