Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I wrote down , that they were on a doing Anthems of the Nations . |
| 2 | She nearly did n't see the two attendant figures ; but there they were on the stem scanners . |
| 3 | And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite . |
| 4 | They were at the World Classics to win since those upstart Aussies already had one major tournament to boast about this year , and they were not getting their hands on this one . |
| 5 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 6 | They had both lived through the great period of modern literature and had survived its passing : they were in a sense foreigners , out of joint with their time . |
| 7 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 8 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |