Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 5 | The first signs of a solution to the financial problem began to appear ; the settlers started growing tobacco and by 1611 they were exporting it to England . |
| 6 | They were saying something to me about there wo n't be that bigger fall . |
| 7 | Sorry , did I miss out on something , that , did n't they say who they were selling it to ? |
| 8 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 9 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 10 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |