Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and the Italians at that time were producing them under licence from . |
| 2 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 3 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 4 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 5 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 6 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 7 | But then right-wing , upper-class fictional characters would have fun even if tentacled Martians were chasing them through sewage . |
| 8 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 9 | Hugh was aware that a small crowd of fishwives , shellfish diggers and freelance gawpers were watching them with interest . |
| 10 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 11 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 12 | A scattered crowd of locals was eyeing them in silence . |
| 13 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 14 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 15 | He was reactivating them for life . |
| 16 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 17 | All she had to do was hold them at bay for a few weeks . |
| 18 | People are encouraged to look at the wills but constant handling was putting them in jeopardy . |
| 19 | From their point of view , the most reasonable way to interpret these strange articles was to regard them as headgear . |
| 20 | His main priority now was to get them to safety . |
| 21 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 22 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 23 | The JAC was the central body for a number of local juvenile advisory committees and its chief function was to organize them in connection with each labour exchange in the area . |
| 24 | Colonel Goreng was to entertain them at home that evening . |
| 25 | I was telling them at school . |