Example sentences of "they were [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds United they were facing one of the top three English sides playing at the pinnacle of their powers . |
| 2 | Tiny Tabard 's hopes were dashed after taking a 7–0 lead as they were mauled 50–13 by mighty Northampton . |
| 3 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 4 | In an experiment conducted several years ago , students were shown a short documentary film and , when the film was over , they were asked twelve questions concerning what they had seen . |
| 5 | To take the latter point first , if my hon. Friend looks at many , perhaps all , of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies , he will find that they were split 50 : 50 — there was employee representation . |
| 6 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 7 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 8 | They were beaten 6–1 by Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 9 | In 1920 they were promoted to the First Division and got to their first Cup final , against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge , where they were beaten 1–0 . |
| 10 | are definitely relegated after they were beaten 2–1 West their third win in a row . |
| 11 | ENGLAND 'S dramatic demise as a footballing world power hit rock-bottom this morning when they were beaten 2–0 by the United States . |
| 12 | They were beaten 2–0 at Ewood Park by play-off hopefuls Charlton on Saturday , and although they remain two points clear , the chasing pack is closing in . |
| 13 | SCOTLAND 's interest in the Fiji International Sevens will be restricted to the Plate competition after they were beaten 19-0 by Western Samoa in their final pool match early today . |
| 14 | After overcoming Blackburn 3-0 at home in the first leg , due largely to an injury to Rovers ' goalkeeper Terry Gennoe , they were beaten 2-1 last night but prevailed on aggregate . |
| 15 | They were beaten 2-1 by City at the Manor — Wright ; Thompson ; Simpson . |
| 16 | They were beaten 2-1 by Pender at Uddingston , where goals from Ian McWhinney and John Brotherton put Pender in the driving seat before Dave Jackson notched a last-minute consolation . |
| 17 | France put future prospects before personal glory when they were beaten 4–1 by Germany in the play-off for the bronze medal . |
| 18 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 19 | They were beaten 3-2 in the semi-finals by the eventual winners , Berlin , and then went down 4-2 against the English side , Hightown , in the play-off for the bronze medals . |
| 20 | Table-toppers Rhyl lost their 100 per cent record in the Manweb Cymru Alliance when they were beaten 3-2 at Gresford in September . |
| 21 | By the end of the evening , to Du Camp 's clear disapproval , they were calling one another tu . |
| 22 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 23 | Instead , they were to receive 5 per cent of their balances by way of a cash distribution . |
| 24 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 25 | If the place failed as links the property was a valuable one , and there was no probability in their losing their money and in the meantime they were receiving three per cent which was as good as if the money were invested in Consols . |
| 26 | They were given one day to decide . |
| 27 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 28 | They were given three large doses of vitamin A over a week , and received vitamin A in all subsequent survey rounds . |
| 29 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 30 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |