Example sentences of "they [was/were] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | When they were did that skeleton dance , Hayley and another one . |
| 3 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 4 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 5 | Whilst they were doing five shows a day and rehearsing at the Paramount , they were told to double at the Lido . |
| 6 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 7 | They we , they were doing three days a week in the town . |
| 8 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 9 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 10 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 11 | But like , I mean I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things , I could handle it , but like , like on that op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled |
| 12 | But like I mean , I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things I could handle it but like , like on that op op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled . |
| 13 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |