Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within ten minutes they were seated on either side of Livesey 's desk , surrounded by files and account books . |
| 2 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 3 | Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space . |
| 4 | Now of course they were drenched with this water sump water coming from this blow hole . |
| 5 | What and they were matched in some way ? |
| 6 | In June 1991 they were acquitted on all charges and proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 were discontinued . |
| 7 | The conclusions were not totally negative , though they were swayed by some rather bold assumptions as to the degree of help and co-operation to be expected from the Dominions and the Sterling Area . |
| 8 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 9 | They were treated in this way because birds might be able to acquire the skill simply by coming across an already opened milk bottle . |
| 10 | The dividing line between a fixed ‘ site ’ and a portable ‘ find ’ is often a narrow one : for example , the site of the ship Mary Rose was excavated over a period of several years , but when the remains of the ship itself were eventually raised , they were treated like any other waterlogged find , albeit on a much larger scale . |
| 11 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 12 | Institutionally , they were deprived of most individual freedoms , rights and responsibilities , and ideologically they were little more than chattels , slaves or decorative ornaments ( depending on their class position ) . |
| 13 | To pursue the point , although it is normal for regulated companies and publicly owned companies to face little competition , if they were replaced by some other structure it is not clear that competition would develop . |
| 14 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |
| 15 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 16 | That said , they were presented with some fairly easy targets , not least from the incredibly untidy lineout ball that the Welsh jumpers were offering poor Robert Jones before it eventually dried up altogether . |
| 17 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 18 | Along the way Aileen told people all about the charity and the work they do for children with terminal or life threatening illnesses , she also explained just what the charity had done for her family when they were faced with such a situation . |
| 19 | And here they were faced with this strange opera , the plot of which they found unattractive , the music very difficult and , indeed , unrecognizable in any way at all as operatic music as they understood it . |
| 20 | But now they were faced with another predicament , how to remove the insects from her body ? |
| 21 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 22 | They were hanging off this young girl . |
| 23 | They were followed by another couple , David and Patricia North , with Frank Sinatra bringing up the rear . |
| 24 | They were grown in many combinations , so that we frequently get references to drage ( barley and oats ) and maslin ( wheat and rye ) . |
| 25 | They were supported in this on Aug. 6 by the US Attorney for Kansas , Lee Thompson . |
| 26 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 27 | And the same with all fruit er they were rationed like that . |
| 28 | But they were obvious to most people , even though they were magnified by those who did n't know him well . |
| 29 | They were looking into each other 's face and laughing as if , Agnes thought , they were alone . |
| 30 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |