Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 2 | In Behrend v. Produce Brokers ( 1920 K.B. ) part of the goods were delivered which the buyers accepted . |
| 3 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 4 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 5 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 6 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 7 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |