Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Brown Engineering , the Crown Agent , Department of Trade and Industry officials et al , who were trying desperately and belatedly to hustle the Kuwaiti government-in-exile in Taif , picking over the bones left by their voracious American allies . |
| 2 | And , from what he remembered of the funeral ( his grandmother 's ) , the ushers looked like men who were trying hard not to snigger . |
| 3 | Beattie asked to accompany the two who were to search upstairs . |
| 4 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 5 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |
| 6 | The gangsters stayed all day with the family — who were tied up — calmly watching television . |
| 7 | The first two soldiers had now crossed the room and dragged to the floor the men who were tied up . |
| 8 | The Countess cast a scathing eye at the dancers who were beginning yet another waltz , then looked back to the Duke . |
| 9 | The final list is of capped players who were sounded out about availability and , for various reasons , have asked not to be considered . |
| 10 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 11 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke , who were beaten only once as England soared to promotion in the European League , suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the men 's doubles at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 12 | The opposition might be a little stronger than North Lancs and Fylde , who were beaten overall in May by 22 shots . |
| 13 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |
| 14 | But while the gap between the filmmakers and the critical culture could seem an unbridgeable chasm , there were people with feet in both camps who were discussing how to wrest British cinema away from its dual dependence on the stage and American models . |
| 15 | For those who were staying there I mean . |
| 16 | From the 500 women who were questioned all over England and Scotland the following facts emerged : |
| 17 | FAKY ALI AHMAT : a 52-year-old Koranic teacher , he was among six people , including a 14-year-old boy , who were killed instantly on 1 August when members of Chad 's National Gendarmerie opened fire on a group of people attending Koranic lessons at a mosque in Diguel-Est , a suburb of the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 18 | The full extent of the tragedy was impossible to asses at first , but it soon became apparent that the number who were killed instantly was in excess of 70 . |
| 19 | The mean extent of gastric metaplasia in 39 patients who were treated continuously ( >1 year ) with H 2 receptor antagonists was 19% ( range 0–88% ) and 15% ( range 0–88% ) in 53 patients who did not take these drugs . |
| 20 | In a limited number of patients , however , who were treated continuously with omeprazole , we found an appreciably reduced extent of gastric metaplasia . |
| 21 | In 38 patients who were treated intermittently ( <4 months/year ) with these drugs the mean extent was 21% ( range 0–72% ) . |
| 22 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 23 | No explanation was given to those who were turned back , other than the Foreign Ministry 's declaration that this was a ‘ sovereign decision ’ . |
| 24 | I hung about further down the street , hoping not to be seen by the few people who were strolling there . |
| 25 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
| 26 | And erm , and then on the Sunday morning , it was the local tradespeople erm who were taking down the Christmas trees and things , they had to clear up , they did n't have to but they did clear up the mess , it was a disgrace . |
| 27 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 28 | Patients who were operated on between midnight and 6 am also had an increased rate of unnecessary operations ( 39/125 , 31% ) . |
| 29 | Cages , nets , animals in captivity , humans who were pushed lower than animals — he had seen enough of that . |
| 30 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |