Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 2 | Outside , on the sun-soaked Common , they were piling up French loaves and bottles of Beaujolais . |
| 3 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 4 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 5 | Customers clamour at the counter as thick as if they were handing out free tickets to Dublin . |
| 6 | They were turning out raw youngsters last season in the Ulster league and there was no way they could survive . |
| 7 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |
| 8 | They were carrying out top secret radar research . |
| 9 | Then they were driving over rough ground , loose stones popping under the tyres . |
| 10 | Today at the Paddocks Hospital in Princes Risborough they were testing out new ones . |
| 11 | They were taken on full-time , they left college , and they want to do whatever they want to do . |
| 12 | They were travelling over familiar territory and life on the march had slipped into a routine . |
| 13 | It could have been that , I suppose , which made the hairs on the back of my neck feel like they were giving off static . |