Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 2 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 3 | They were received in the Minister 's private flat in one of the narrow streets close to the House of Commons . |
| 4 | They were raised in the middle years of the last century from sturdy stocks and grey slate , with glorious tiled floors and superb vaulted ceilings . |
| 5 | No , there are at Tower now , they were raised in the Tower , but they eh , I do n't know when they moved , they moved to a the depot at a |
| 6 | They were absorbed in the effort of walking , did not see Alice . |
| 7 | Now they were gathered in the chapel for her final journey home . |
| 8 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 9 | From their sure-footedness over ankle-twisting rocks , they were obviously young , and they were babbling in the manner of teenage boys with everyone talking and no one listening . |
| 10 | Oh no they were based in the town , at buildings , used to be at the buildings . |
| 11 | They were based in the main on constituency Labour parties although Communists and , for a short time , members of the ILP worked within them . |
| 12 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 13 | Military officials told AI that they were killed in the cross-fire between soldiers and insurgents . |
| 14 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 15 | Like sod sliced by the share , or sea by the bowsprit , butchered meat in its clothing reeled back on this side and that , and as men fell behind him , they were replaced in the svinfylkja by others . |
| 16 | These beautiful Celtic antiphons were preserved by aural tradition until the 13th century , when they were recorded in the Inchcolm Antiphoner , one of Scotland 's oldest musical manuscripts . |
| 17 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 18 | But I knew they were living in the past , knew too that there was no way that Allan Wells was going to beat me . |
| 19 | Here are some examples : they can see in the dark they can never ever tell a lie when they are with other people they know what they are thinking they are living backwards in time — they were born in the future and so instead of getting older , they get younger . |
| 20 | If they were born in the village they could well be in the erm baptismal book in church . |
| 21 | They were arranged in the form of a great flattened disc . |
| 22 | They were enumerated in the " families " of those they served from the aristocracy through the gentry and middle class to the farmers and shopkeepers . |
| 23 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 24 | The agreements usually obliged the " licensees " , as they were called in the agreements , to share occupation with other persons the landlord might from time to time nominate , each to bear responsibility for part of the rent . |
| 25 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | As they were examined in the special admission ward Doctor and our Medical Superintendent tried to keep families together . |
| 27 | Yep , well each station in those days had one of the war-time sirens on , on , situated right on the top of the tower of these fire stations , enormous great sirens with a very piercing , loud sound , erm so that was the audible warning , to tell them that they were wanted in the fire station . |
| 28 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 29 | They were drinking in the Red Anchor ; it was noon or just past , and still a full working day . |
| 30 | A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment . |