Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | They were wearing cardboard boots that froze in the winter |
| 5 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 6 | He told the police they were wearing dark clothing . |
| 7 | Never mind , also , they were wearing last year 's all yellow kit . |
| 8 | They were facing each other , Ward saying , ‘ We have nothin , that could make it there and back . ’ |
| 9 | Laughing , Edward moved sideways , sweeping her with him , untangling her legs , straightening her until they were facing each other , side by side . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The notion that they were mutated terrestrial insects does not bear inspection . |
| 13 | They were replenished each evening with barrels of muddy water brought from the lake on donkey carts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 17 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 20 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 21 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 22 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 23 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 24 | In an experiment conducted several years ago , students were shown a short documentary film and , when the film was over , they were asked twelve questions concerning what they had seen . |
| 25 | Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes . |
| 26 | If they were to talk all night , they would still be no nearer to viewing life from a similar standpoint . |
| 27 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 28 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |