Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 2 | They no doubt thought that they were fulfilling their filial duty by providing her with an outing and ‘ treat ’ . |
| 3 | There were nine men around the fire , and they were cooking their terrible food . |
| 4 | Boro had fallen behind to a fourth minute penalty on a ground where they were seeking their first win since 1938 . |
| 5 | The Rochdale parents said they were reliving their whole trauma along with the parents of Orkney . |
| 6 | Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension . |
| 7 | Just seven days earlier , they were warned their new-born babies may have been tagged wrongly when a fire alarm went off . |
| 8 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 9 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 10 | The Danzigers and Eberhardts thought that they were choosing their social isolation . |
| 11 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 12 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 13 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 14 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 15 | Their safety had not increased one little bit granted , they were more comfortable and granted , they were enjoying themselves more , they felt better , but they were no safer . |
| 16 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 17 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 18 | They 're really quite heavily bogged down , and they were to do them all , er one day at school . |
| 19 | Anne stopped listening while they were comparing their masturbatory records , and watched for new arrivals . |
| 20 | She gave me a little wink , because , of course , they were pointing their telescopic lenses mostly at me . |
| 21 | They consulted deaf women and their interpreters , and re-evaluated their work , to make sure they were getting it right . |
| 22 | You know , so personally for my area of work I just wanted them to think they were getting someone respectable . |
| 23 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 24 | While they were watching their single , another machine was knocking out Paul McCartney 's new album at one every 2 seconds . |
| 25 | They were to spend their last days there with her aunt Nicolette 's family in Neuilly where they had just moved . |
| 26 | and they were singing the territory , hello darling , they were singing their territorial songs |
| 27 | They may have been corrupted by the atrocities committed against their people but , by stooping to the same level of conduct , they were corrupting their own cause . |
| 28 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 29 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 30 | Even now , they were following their own destinies , being drawn towards some Last Battle in which they would stand against things Hawk called the Dark Spirits , whose front man on Earth she recognized as Elder Seth . |