Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six minutes before half time , they were punished for their shortcomings when Durrant gave Rangers the lead . |
| 2 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 3 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 4 | It must have showed — or else Tom Russell was already far too skilled at reading her emotions — because his first words to her when they were seated in his red sports car were , ‘ Cat got your tongue ? ’ |
| 5 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 6 | He was subtly changed now that they were flying to his mountain abode . |
| 7 | The Indians used the berries to dye feathers and fabrics , and they were prized for their healing properties ( wounds were bathed with the juice ) . |
| 8 | There were some that were quite valuable , a Churchill , I think , and a Boss , but they were sent to his gunsmith in Glasgow , Peterson and Briggs , and they were sold . |
| 9 | I think they were sent for their tea by Billingsley and his friends , and I 'll tell you something more , no one will ever know what happened to them , so forget it ! |
| 10 | In 1968 they were raised to their present position to escape inundation by the rising waters of a man-made lake . |
| 11 | The train left King 's Cross on time and the Wisharts began to read their newspapers , not much conversation took place as they were absorbed with their reading , an occasional smile and a feeling of companionship was enough . |
| 12 | The Trade Union workshop addressed some important issues , although women admitted to feeling apathetic and emotional about the various campaigns they were waging in their workplaces . |
| 13 | He urged the Western governments which withdrew their diplomats from Kabul on the eve of the Soviet military withdrawal in January to send them back and stop the psychological war they were waging against his government . |
| 14 | They were based on his book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics , one of the intellectual classics of this century . |
| 15 | They were sentenced for their part in laundering £l4 million cash from the robbery near Heathrow airport in 1983 . |
| 16 | They were complaining about their telephone bill it was er thirty seven pounds . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at me , ’ he said , and she did , slowly opening her eyes until they were fixed on his face . |
| 18 | Until recently , they were killed in their thousands by Turkish hunters in the Black Sea and they are still being actively hunted in Greenland , where about 1000 porpoises are harpooned or shot each year . |
| 19 | This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother . |
| 20 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 21 | To her horror , she saw that they were exposed to his avid gaze . |
| 22 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 23 | Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis — Functionalism . |
| 24 | They were ignored by our host and fellow guests alike . |
| 25 | This is a Quaker family ; they were asked about their religion and the form of worship they followed . |
| 26 | Before they were asked for their views on the cash flow statement , the analysts were asked to rate the importance of sources of information about the company for investment decisions . |
| 27 | During the evening they were presented with their gold watches and a cheque each from the company by the then general manager , Martin Cooke . |
| 28 | In June 1953 , they were taken in State to the High Kirk of St Giles in Edinburgh 's Royal Mile and , during the National Service of Thanksgiving marking the accession of the new sovereign , they were presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth . |
| 29 | They were seeking throughout their work to show that the concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built , the concepts of the State , of property , of the nature of men and women , of marriage , of the family , of labour , of trade , and of capital itself , were not unshakeable givens based on such ahistorical phenomena as the nature of man , or logic , or god . |
| 30 | These parents may have been disturbed or overwrought , but this does not necessarily mean that they were mistaken about their child 's illness . |