Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the camp they were given some Turkish slippers and ragged pieces of uniform to wear . |
| 2 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 3 | In fact they were allowed some professional space ( albeit not specifically " as women " ) to engage in scholarly work on the " man to man " discourse with which the field was largely concerned . |
| 4 | He nodded a greeting to the other three visitors , who crowded into the cell as if they were playing some bizarre game of sardines . |
| 5 | In the morning Ballesteros and Olazabal could have been cast as villains but after lunch they were to produce some irrepressible form . |
| 6 | It looks as if they were making some slight effort of their own up here to maintain the quality of life . |