Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent independent poll on exactly that matter showed that already , within the first year , a significant number of patients of general practitioners recognised that they were getting better services than a year previously . |
| 2 | Things were n't getting better in here , they were getting worse ; what had happened in the passage ; I dare n't even think about that . |
| 3 | Kids were n't getting tougher these days at all — they were getting soppier . |
| 4 | Then the chains on some passes were too short to pass over the wearers ' heads : they were getting longer chains in . |
| 5 | On the first measure the poor were becoming poorer , while on the second measure they were becoming richer , though not to ine same extent as the rich . |
| 6 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 7 | But they were working longer hours . |
| 8 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |