Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 2 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 3 | They were doing their best to restrict peak growth , but neither the Central Authority nor the Government , they argued , should attempt , for short-term reasons , to blunt the commercial edge of the industry . |
| 4 | They were doing their best , Charlotte knew . |
| 5 | I was at a dinner other night , er where er French Railways were the hosts , and of course they were doing their best to er tell everybody to travel through the Tunnel naturally enough , because that 's what their trains will be doing come May , and er one or two people , it must be said , were just a touch sceptical . |
| 6 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 7 | They looked like thy camp followers of an army , with their bundles of food , but they were carrying their best shoes in their hands . |