Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While city leaders in Leipzig held talks with reformists , reports indicated that police in Halle had made a baton attack on about 3,000 people as they were leaving a church to march in silence round the town . |
| 2 | Environmental health officer Richard Hallows admitted yesterday they were facing a problem and called on the public to help them . |
| 3 | They were chasing a total of 160 and were ticking along nicely . |
| 4 | In Islay in September 1938 they were flying a peregrine falcon at grouse with a bird called Cressida . |
| 5 | Many members will recall that they were sent a copy of this in 1989 , with the Journal . |
| 6 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 7 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 8 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 9 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 10 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 11 | It was a terrible injustice — as though they were seeking a scapegoat to put down a marker to keep other pilots on their toes . |
| 12 | They were towing a desert manta on a long black line . |
| 13 | A counsellor commented : ‘ They always assumed I 'd do disability counselling ; they were hanging a label round my neck . ’ |
| 14 | And then er perhaps they were get a customer in about two or three weeks perhaps , less than that sometimes . |
| 15 | And that 's why they were called a window breaker these tops . |
| 16 | Oh aye when they used to carry it they they were drinking a dram now and again on the road going to it . |
| 17 | They were discussing a machine that was continually breaking down . |
| 18 | This emerged yesterday as the two companies finally confirmed they were discussing a deal to thwart the rival US car giant Ford , which intends to build a 15 per cent stake in Jaguar in preparation for a full bid . |
| 19 | There is no way of knowing at what stage the Howards discovered that they were supporting a usurpation , but there are no signs of second thoughts . |
| 20 | There is no way of knowing at what stage the Howards discovered that they were supporting a usurpation , but there are no signs of second thoughts . |
| 21 | But it was saying , er this , this programme was saying that that erm that they were buying a house . |
| 22 | They were buying a lot from . |
| 23 | They were gifted a goal six minutes later when a John Clark free-kick was touched on by Ferguson and Paddy Connolly nipped in through the static Celtic defence to lift the ball over Pat Bonner . |
| 24 | They were to give a year of their energy , time and skills at cost to themselves . |
| 25 | They were passing a builder 's yard . |
| 26 | They were passing a bottle back and forth between them . |
| 27 | Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree . |
| 28 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 30 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |