Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were wearing cardboard boots that froze in the winter |
| 2 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 3 | The notion that they were mutated terrestrial insects does not bear inspection . |
| 4 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 5 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 6 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 7 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 8 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 10 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 11 | In an experiment conducted several years ago , students were shown a short documentary film and , when the film was over , they were asked twelve questions concerning what they had seen . |
| 12 | Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes . |
| 13 | It would be fanciful to suppose that Charles and Diana are enjoying marital bliss just months after their faces confirmed that they were living separate lives . |
| 14 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 15 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
| 16 | Those with 16 or 17 passes but meeting all other requirements , and who could not keep within the ‘ 21 rule ’ if they were to take additional modules are awarded a degree without honours . |
| 17 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 18 | Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses … |
| 19 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 20 | Patients were not included in the study if they had undergone previous gastric surgery or if they were receiving cytotoxic drugs or >5 mg/day prednisolone . |
| 21 | It was necessary therefore to originate our national network shows early in the evening if they were to reach other parts of the country before their respective peak listening hours had passed into bedtimes . |
| 22 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |
| 23 | They were so different from the lively Irish nuns , who , when they were passing some workmen unloading crates of beer into a pavement hatch in Nassau Street , Dublin , burst out laughing when the jovial brewery workers called out to them : ‘ Now , girls , steady up ! ’ |
| 24 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 25 | ‘ You said there had been an accident in the section where they were handling nuclear devices . |
| 26 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 27 | Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges . |
| 28 | Hypertensives in the experimental group received intensive advice about their blood pressure , including guidance on weight control and salt restriction , and if that did n't work they were given anti-hypertensive drugs . |
| 29 | In the Gulf , in addition to the Kleenex , everywhere they went , no matter what time of day , they were given little cups of very strong coffee to drink . |
| 30 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |