Example sentences of "[vb past] that they were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceramics particularly impressed her and she found that they were referred to in the catalogue as " agitational chinaware " . |
| 2 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 3 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 4 | As they drew near their prey , the sailors realized that they were dealing with something much more fierce than any whale . |
| 5 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 6 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 7 | Then he realised that they were referring to their own attack on him . |
| 8 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 9 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 10 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 11 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 12 | Although ten full minutes passed after leaving his party swigging juice happily and pointing at the loch , a casual glance backwards revealed that they were gaining on us quickly . |
| 13 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 14 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 15 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 16 | ‘ Since the planes were attacking government-held territory , we assumed that they were flown by ethnic Serbs , ’ Mr Boucher said . |
| 17 | In a recent study by Willis and Nutter ( 1990 ) of 136 publicly funded utilities and municipalities in the UK 57 per cent stated that they were inhibited in their GIS developments by ‘ a lack of staff with the right expertise ’ . |
| 18 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 19 | The most serious trouble was in Suffolk , in the cloth-manufacturing area of Lavenham and Sudbury , where the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk claimed that they were faced with a body of 4,000 men , who alleged that they had no work and did not know how to get their living . |
| 20 | The plaintiff claimed that they were bound by contract to continue the pension . |
| 21 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 22 | Article 26 of the 1983 UCP enabled banks to accept freight forwarders ' bills of lading when letters of credit required marine bills of lading if the freight forwarders ' bills of lading indicated that they were issued by a ‘ freight forwarder acting as a carrier , or the agent of a named carrier . ’ |
| 23 | I chose that day to be a Mex because I figured that they were outnumbered by the Micks . |
| 24 | Nearly 3,000 cans of meat , originally imported as food aid from Czechoslovakia , were buried by the state authorities after scientific tests discovered that they were contaminated with radioactivity . |
| 25 | Sara discovered that they were to travel in two large buses which were parked outside the house . |
| 26 | After founding the Fellowship of Isis they established that they were descended from one of her High Priests by a devious route linking the Egyptians with the Gaels . |
| 27 | Both Warnie and Minto were jealous of anyone who claimed Jack 's love ; this meant that they were bound to be jealous of one another , since for both of them Jack was the most important person in the universe . |
| 28 | To her horror , she saw that they were exposed to his avid gaze . |
| 29 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 30 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |