Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were muscle-bound men covered in scars and tattoos . |
| 2 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |
| 3 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 4 | Probably would n't have really mattered why they split up if they were that rubbish to start with . |
| 5 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 6 | Oh aye , yes , they were all English speaking , |
| 7 | They were all codes meaning : ‘ Yes , I 'll go higher than the last bidder . ’ |
| 8 | After hesitating a moment , he admitted that they were all detector finds . |
| 9 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 10 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 11 | Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes . |
| 12 | Thus in SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 Donaldson J explained that a court should ask the question " Would the parties have agreed that a particular term formed part of the contract if they were reasonable men looking at the matter objectively in the knowledge that no adverse consequences could flow from the answer ? " |
| 13 | They were diuretic pills to encourage patients to get rid of excess water quickly . |
| 14 | Nicolo slowed the car ; now she could see that they were passing monuments made of stone and marble . |
| 15 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 16 | During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings . |
| 17 | There was a transfer waiting list of over 500 applicants in early 1980 in South Hams , and many of these , if moved , would release houses for families , especially if they were elderly persons waiting to go into purpose-built flats . |
| 18 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 19 | Only he truly knows whether they were cheap pictures produced with one aim , to make as much money as possible from the least amount of effort , or whether he had other more high-flown artistic notions in mind . |
| 20 | They were sleeping tablets to help me sleep . |
| 21 | Slowly they worked their way up the wide and gently rising river-valley until they were black sticks bent against their baskets of provisions . |
| 22 | They were good things to enjoy . |
| 23 | Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same |
| 24 | For months Benn stomped the country addressing as many meetings attended by fringe pressure groups as he could , telling them they were good people wasting their time outside the Labour Party . |
| 25 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 26 | Peter was from Germany , and Helga was from California : they were solo travellers looking for entertainment , travelling together for her convenience . |
| 27 | They were low domes set on tall , narrow drums , possibly based in design upon the wooden Cathedral of S. Sophia at Novgorod ( destroyed by fire 1045 ) . |
| 28 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 29 | They started to talk about the ego , id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body . |
| 30 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |