Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) . |
| 2 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 3 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 4 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 5 | The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests ! |
| 6 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |
| 7 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 8 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 9 | Around him the usual Massgoers , Benedicta included , watched fascinated as Athelstan urged the soul to go out to meet his Christ , whilst he , Athelstan , priest of that church , summoned God 's army to meet this unfortunate man 's soul ; they were to lead it into Paradise and ensure it did not fall into the hands of Satan . |
| 10 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 11 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 12 | At the same time as they were re-establishing themselves in Vietnam the French were finally being evicted , as they saw it , from Syria and the Lebanon and while these were League of Nations mandates rather than parts of the French Empire proper , their loss was no less bitterly resented . |
| 13 | They will recollect the guidelines they were given themselves as children . |
| 14 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 15 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 16 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 17 | They were accusing him of claiming to be God . |
| 18 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 19 | Somehow , somewhere , she got the impression that they were congratulating themselves on Martin and Rachel 's failure ; on their very irresponsible approach to Phoebe 's education . |
| 20 | They 've shown opposition to the introduction of L M S right from the start and put every obstacle possible in the way of its success , and its implementation , and yet there they were congratulating themselves on how well it was working . |
| 21 | Hello there … the olympic gold rush hit Central South over the weekend … first as we predicted … as we hoped … the Henley on Thames rowing machine of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent cruised home in the coxless pairs … and while they were enjoying themselves in Spain . |
| 22 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 23 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 24 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 25 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 26 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 27 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 28 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 29 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 30 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |