Example sentences of "were [verb] they in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 2 | Half the saints in Paradise were facing them in rows from the rounded west wall and along the south wall stretched a hieratic representation of the life of St. Nicholas . |
| 3 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 4 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 5 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |