Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were quartered in a sumptuous villa next to the Roman baths and messed with their officers ( a notable departure from French Army custom ) at the best hotel in the town . |
| 2 | They were displayed with an almost subversive indifference to the impression made upon the spectator . |
| 3 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 4 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 5 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 6 | They were maintained in a temperature controlled environment provided with a 12:12 hour light:dark cycle and given regular guinea pig food and tap water ad libitum . |
| 7 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 8 | They were exploited by an economic system which was in 1880 increasingly characterized by capitalist organization , large-scale production for the market and specialization . |
| 9 | They were seated at a small table with a red checked cloth surmounted by a clean one of starched white linen , with two glass beakers , two knives and two forks , and a basket of the most delicious freshly baked bread . |
| 10 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 11 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |
| 12 | On the way they were disturbed by a lorry . |
| 13 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 14 | They were rejected by an outcry from within Britain and by the British Prime Minister . |
| 15 | They were fed on a diet of live baby brine shrimp and grindal worm twice a day and a large partial water change was done each week . |
| 16 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 17 | The film was responsible at the time for the tremendous popularity of the bar and , whenever Yates or Dustin went into it , they were sent over a bottle of champagne by the management . |
| 18 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 19 | Tell her they were sent by a friend who heard she was ill . |
| 20 | They were slowing for a roundabout . |
| 21 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 22 | As such , they were based on a loose holding-company structure which had not entailed thoroughgoing internal reorganisation . |
| 23 | On March 20 the Indian authorities rejected Pakistani government charges of human rights violations , claiming that they were based on a " terrorist disinformation campaign " ; the most dramatic allegation related to the mass rape on Feb. 23 of 30-60 women and girls when 800 troops of the 4th Rajput Rifles had sealed off the village of Kunan Poshpura . |
| 24 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 25 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 26 | You you know like erm they were they were fixed onto a card with something like elastic or something like that . |
| 27 | Then , sensing that her manner was too abrupt for courtesy , added , ‘ They were killed in a traffic accident in France . ’ |
| 28 | Ponyboy , although living with his two elder brothers , lost his parents when they were killed in a car crash when he was young . |
| 29 | They were killed in an accident just before I was married — Peter was my father 's friend . ’ |
| 30 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |