Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a place — he recalled it now — Burkett had pointed it out to him when they were fishing on Derwent Water — a sheer cliff coming suddenly out of woods and fronting the valley . |
| 2 | They were fishing off Roches Point when Dave Scott tangled with the lively middleweight shark . |
| 3 | They were quartered in a sumptuous villa next to the Roman baths and messed with their officers ( a notable departure from French Army custom ) at the best hotel in the town . |
| 4 | Six minutes before half time , they were punished for their shortcomings when Durrant gave Rangers the lead . |
| 5 | The moral faculty needed to govern the sexual instinct , organizing it on ‘ broad , well-marked mental foundations ’ .30 Chastity , continence and self-control were the highest forms of sexual development because they were regulated by reason and a knowledge of the providential laws of human nature . |
| 6 | But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good . |
| 7 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 8 | They were leaving on Friday evening . |
| 9 | ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them . |
| 10 | Now they were heard to ‘ twitter with execration ’ at the news that the Nazi SA had seized a number of Jews in the town of Worms , thrown them into a pigsty and beaten them . |
| 11 | Reports in American newspapers and on television ensured that they were heard in Washington just as President Clinton was considering whether to tie trade with China to questions of human rights . |
| 12 | Erm pretty little thing , the er boxes are very standard er in design , they 're they were varying in size , but erm the er sort of double hipped roof , the finials erm the angled corners , of the windows erm the er er the rails erm and the er sort of platform there , er very very standard er all over the place . |
| 13 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 14 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 15 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 16 | They were displayed with an almost subversive indifference to the impression made upon the spectator . |
| 17 | They were displayed on the Eton flag and stamped on school documents . |
| 18 | During the week that this correspondence was taking place , tenders for the Foreign Office were received from thirteen of the fifteen builders and , as arranged , they were displayed alongside Scott 's drawings . |
| 19 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 20 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 21 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 22 | Revealingly , its opening section was devoted to foreign affairs ; in all three Thatcher manifestos , including the one in 1983 following the Falklands war , they were relegated to the back , and domestic policy took pride of place . |
| 23 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 24 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 25 | WAS Bill Shankly associated with Huddersfield Town when they were relegated in 1956 ? |
| 26 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 27 | Both say they were convicted on the basis of fabricated confessions . |
| 28 | They were convicted of armed robberies and sentenced to 15 years and 14 years respectively . |
| 29 | They were convicted of ‘ waging war against the state ’ and sentenced to death . |
| 30 | They were convicted of ‘ disrespect ’ for writing a letter to the executive board of the Communist Youth Union , of which they were both members , accusing President Fidel Castro of being a traitor . |