Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] they [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 2 | and anything with a foreign number plate they were |
| 3 | In a small harbour below an empty summer house they were greeted by a seaman , who had been sitting warming his hands on the engine of a small black motorboat , incongruously called Shirley . |
| 4 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 5 | After the second escape attempt they were beaten again and flung into the blackness of stone-floored isolation cells in the nearby fort at An Dap . |
| 6 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 7 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 8 | Outside county hall they were already celebrating . |
| 9 | With their sophisticated radio equipment they were able to use satellites to call up airstrikes , then talk the pilots right on to their targets with devastating accuracy . |
| 10 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 11 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 12 | After another two-hour session on the now freezing parade ground they were released for supper . |
| 13 | But against a resolute Portadown defence they were getting little change . |
| 14 | there was one kind with bloody chocolate offer they was started eating it . |
| 15 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 16 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 17 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |
| 18 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 19 | The Baughs checked the original offer letter carefully and they say it did not state clearly that once people have accepted , there was no way out and it certainly did not mention the excessive opt-out figure they were later quoted . |
| 20 | In general , children stay in the same percentile band they were in at birth . |
| 21 | Whilst coffins of this type were produced for vault and brick-lined shaft deposit they were also required for intramural earth-cut graves ; one such example from the 1820s was discovered during the excavations at St Mary 's Church , Little Ilford , Essex in 1984 . |
| 22 | The Norwich City Council wanted to get a licence to be able to sell intoxicants at a new pop centre they were going to open , mainly for young people , and was a member of the Labour Party , incidentally , and and a County Councillor , one of the City Wards , had the cheek to go and oppose the whole of Norwich City Council |
| 23 | The old hospital in the area had severe cockroach infestations and some of the medical records and files had been damaged , so before they were moved to the new Conquest Hospital they were all fumigated . |
| 24 | Last Saturday night they were watching television . |
| 25 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 26 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 27 | If they differed substantially in their subsequent support for the candidates , then we could be almost certain that the phoney poll information they were fed contributed to which candidate they supported . |
| 28 | And they make those horrible shoe box they were open . |
| 29 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |