Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 2 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 3 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 4 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 5 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 6 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 7 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 8 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 9 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 10 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 11 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 12 | TODAY launched a campaign after customers claimed high-pressure selling techniques were used to push them into signing misleading agreements . |
| 13 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 14 | The drovers disposed the cattle , tended them until the sale-day , and when they were sold delivered them to the farmers who had bought them . |
| 15 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 16 | I thought you were going to put them inside here |
| 17 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 18 | You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each . |
| 19 | Milliners ' assistants did take feathers and fancy buttons from their workrooms and told amazing tales when they were apprehended wearing them in their Sunday hats . |
| 20 | The dogs were never collected , so Friends of Rough Collie Rescue ( FRCR ) at Marlow , Buckinghamshire , were asked to take them for rehoming . |
| 21 | how could that have been developed among a people whose public granaries were crammed with provisions and whose public officials were authorized to distribute them in case of need ? |
| 22 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 23 | A cleanliness CAT team discovered the front desk was blocking rooms which had not been cleaned , and groups were arriving to claim them between shifts , so communication between housekeeping and the front desk was improved . |
| 24 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 25 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 26 | Kevin and Marie and I were trying to organise them into tribes and wagon trains so we could do the film when Julie sauntered up . |
| 27 | The parents of children found to be suffering from any illness at a fieldworker 's visit were advised to take them to the nearest health facility for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 28 | They were obviously concerned that he and the Doctor were planning to rob them of their livelihood . |
| 29 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 30 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |