Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 2 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 3 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
| 4 | They were joined by the former Labour MP for Leith , Ron Brown , and the Scottish National Party district councillor for the area , Ian Smith . |
| 5 | Work began on two new , larger , masonry granaries , although they were situated on the same site . |
| 6 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 7 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 8 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 9 | They were proceeding at no more than walking pace past the numerous hut-like structures around the perimeter of the Barracks , and Denis kept his gaze resolutely in front of him . |
| 10 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 11 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 12 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 13 | In 1691 the Company recognized this and set up two separate administrations , though they were run by the same governor until 1710 . |
| 14 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 15 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 16 | Clearly there is a distinct problem , not so much in the poems , but in the fact that they were written by the same man , they present so clearly different opinions of nature and the role of man , and his enlightenment . |
| 17 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 18 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 19 | They were put on the same strip CD had used , and second time around it helped spinners almost from the outset . |
| 20 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 21 | At the age of nine , they were coming under the same social pressures as older children . |
| 22 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 23 | Both beams were yellow , and they were arriving at the same rate . |
| 24 | They were chosen from the same drawer but were not a pair ! |
| 25 | For a long period , they were opened by the same intelligence case officer as opened correspondence between William Black and the European Commission of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 26 | From this it is possible to infer not only that the Ørslev carbonates were deposited as a patch reef like Aabenraa , but also that they were subjected to the same diagenesis and that this resulted in the development of comparable pore types . |
| 27 | In many repects the bishops of the Merovingian kingdom were like secular magnates , and for the most part they were drawn from the same class . |
| 28 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 29 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 30 | Six warriors escaped north to seek help from the 2000 Lakota living in Canada under Sitting Bull , but they were murdered by the same Assiniboin Indians who had been their hosts two days before . |