Example sentences of "[vb past] they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend in Holborn rang a friend who rang the Chelsea police and found they were taking the accusation very seriously . |
| 2 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 3 | But though they no longer imported some categories of finished products , many Third World manufacturers found they were importing the components , materials and technology for these products instead . |
| 4 | But at the same time many , like Cobbett in Rural Rides , believed they were tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way . |
| 5 | Last night police confirmed they were investigating the accident . |
| 6 | Mr Cotton claimed they were breaking the organisation 's rules by displaying partiality on what was , he said , a news story . |
| 7 | Georgian officials who protested to the Russian army headquarters in the Black Sea resort of Gudauta , claimed they were told the attack was to avenge Saturday 's shelling of a Russian army unit stationed in Abkhazia . |
| 8 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 9 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 10 | Luce 's bitter musings came to a halt as she realised they were approaching the back entrance of a sinister-looking building . |
| 11 | Today Cradley announced they were reporting the matter to the Speedway Promoters ' Association . |
| 12 | There was the brief glory of the 1820s , when Greece was the first part of south-eastern Europe to break free from the Turks , and high-minded liberals all over Europe thought they were seeing the rebirth of Periclean Athens . |
| 13 | Whenever the students thought they were evaluating the work of a man , they assessed it as far more impressive than when they thought it was authored by a woman , whose efforts were labelled mediocre . |
| 14 | I thought they were staying the night . |
| 15 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 16 | And he goes I thought they were taking the micky out of me . |
| 17 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 18 | Because , whether they sought out Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the the probing and the questioning , really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview . |
| 19 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 20 | There was the rub — Rose Lipman complained they were exceeding the estimates . |
| 21 | I had some paper dolls one time , but me landlady got rid of them , said they were messing the place up . |
| 22 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the department said they were studying the consultants ' report on new signposting , highways improvements and restricted access to prevent motorists taking shortcuts through residential areas . |
| 24 | The rating system was corrupt ; they said they were protecting the family unit and thus you got ‘ X ’ if you suck a tit and ‘ GP ’ if you cut it off with a sword . ’ |
| 25 | Last night a post-mortem examination was being carried out to discover how the man died but police said they were treating the death as highly suspicious . |
| 26 | Dutch police said they were investigating the possibility that a bomb was planted on the jet — although engine trouble was the likely cause . |
| 27 | Dutch police said they were investigating the possibility that a bomb was planted on the jet — although engine trouble was the likely cause . |
| 28 | Police said they were investigating the incident as a petrol bombing . |
| 29 | Last night , Stuart Westley , the school 's principal , said they were investigating the matter . |