Example sentences of "[noun sg] they were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder they were getting a raw deal . |
| 2 | After lunch they were given a detailed demonstration of how the Direct Banking system works and were so impressed that both accepted an invitation to join the service . |
| 3 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 4 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |
| 5 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 6 | As they went down into the cellar bar they were given a loud hello ! by Mary Mauchline , one of their party . |
| 7 | By increasing the amount of deuterium they were raising the chance that two deuterons fused together . |
| 8 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |
| 9 | ‘ [ W ] e must ensure that those who live in derelict inner-city areas are not people who are there because they have no choice and who would leave the moment they were given an alternative . ’ |
| 10 | At this moment they were enjoying a sustaining breakfast of sausages , bacon , eggs and fried bread . |
| 11 | The caller gave the name of a football team and Ubaldo had to reply with the name of the team they were playing the following Sunday . |
| 12 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 13 | On the Saturday evening they were having a social and were to watch a striptease . |
| 14 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 15 | Negative evidence confirms the impression that educated Russians had no notion they were approaching a watershed . |
| 16 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 17 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 18 | Later in the day they were given a lift in a horse and cart from west London out into the country . |
| 19 | The Football Association warned last night they were keeping a close eye on the sinning Saints after collecting five bookings and one dismissal in the opening two games of the season . |
| 20 | Northumbria police said last night they were questioning a 15-year-old and a man of 25 . |
| 21 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 22 | But last week they were told the trial would again be delayed , possibly as late as May next year . |
| 23 | Officials could accept responsibility for their behaviour but argue that in being willingly loyal to the corporation they were obeying a superior moral imperative . |
| 24 | I mean , I 'm furious , again , in the newspaper this morning they were having a go at Convenor Milligan ! |
| 25 | If it was a bonny day you worked on till sometimes three in the morning they were doing the . |
| 26 | Of course , the tutor-organisers of this ( as of any ) period were well aware that in trying to serve the voluntary movement they were walking a tightrope between doing too much , so depriving branch members of their rightful participation in and control of affairs , and doing too little , so appearing idle and inefficient . |
| 27 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 28 | If they were not actively asserting their authority they were taking a role of judge and referee as a consequence of children 's requests . |
| 29 | A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |