Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Hopefully we can stay in the there this time , ’ added Wood , mindful that Britain were forced into qualifying after defeat by unsung Finland meant they were relegated last year from the elite nations . |
| 2 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
| 3 | Mrs Abigail drove the blue WRVS van , Miss Poraway sat beside her with a list of the names and addresses they were to visit that morning , the diabetics marked with a ‘ D ’ , as were the corresponding dinners in the metal hot-boxes . |
| 4 | He told the police they were wearing dark clothing . |
| 5 | Never mind , also , they were wearing last year 's all yellow kit . |
| 6 | They were facing each other , Ward saying , ‘ We have nothin , that could make it there and back . ’ |
| 7 | Laughing , Edward moved sideways , sweeping her with him , untangling her legs , straightening her until they were facing each other , side by side . |
| 8 | So there they were facing each other , the man a that being squeezed er his lungs being squeezed , the man on the wardrobe n unable to move because he was upside down virtually facing him head-to-head . |
| 9 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 10 | They were replenished each evening with barrels of muddy water brought from the lake on donkey carts . |
| 11 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |
| 12 | A Brooklands Museum friend recalled that while staging through Toulon in 1947 , with eating irons and mess tins packed in their kit , they were served scrambled egg with a sausage stuck in it in their cupped hands ! |
| 13 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 14 | If they were to talk all night , they would still be no nearer to viewing life from a similar standpoint . |
| 15 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 16 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 17 | IF they thought they were breaking new ground by having the Institute of Directors host a discussion on the lack of women in the boardroom , then Donald Hardie , its Scottish director , and Henry Fairweather , Scottish & Newcastle 's personnel director who put the idea forward , were right — in more ways than one . |
| 18 | They were kissing each other through gritted teeth , so the story went . |
| 19 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 20 | Coventry v Arsenal Arsenal return to one of the few grounds where they were beaten last season , with their match winner against Manchester United , Groves , likely to partner Smith up front again . |
| 21 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 22 | Whose arms went out first they would never know , but suddenly they were holding each other tightly , their mouths hungry for each other . |
| 23 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 24 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 25 | Now I noticed this with in the sitting room this year I got John , friend of Nev 's to repaint the walls because do you remember they were called soft peach ? |
| 26 | They were drinking horrible coffee from paper cups in Ian 's and Theodora 's attic office . |
| 27 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 28 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 29 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 30 | They were named last night as Richard 's uncle , Gary Sowerby , 25 , of Heythorpe Road , Acklam , and John Hodgson , 26 , of Witton Close , Middlesbrough . |