Example sentences of "they were [adv] [verb] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hon. Members might be happy to consider a 48-hour rule , but the farming community , to name but one , would find it extremely difficult at harvest time if they were not allowed to ask their farm workers to work more than 48 hours a week . |
| 2 | An approach described by Gup and Norwood ( 1982 ) may offer the basis of the method needed , even though they were not attempting to push their analysis as far as that implied here . |
| 3 | The captain and the chief and second mates received cargo allotments of value , but officers of junior rank were unlikely to make very substantial profits , even if they were not forced to share their allocation of cargo space with the commander in order to obtain a place at all . |
| 4 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 5 | The Assassins , a Muslim sect founded in the eleventh century , were reputed to reward their devotees with visions of heaven by the use of hashish ( from which they were widely assumed to derive their name ) . |
| 6 | They were soon forced to reverse their opinion , however , when Vichy allowed German planes to land in Syria . |
| 7 | When Trestle came to the Festival for the first time in 1986 , they were just beginning to make their name , and were virtually unknown in Belfast . |
| 8 | As a cross-check , they were also asked to give their initials and date of birth which , together with their sex , provided an identity code . |
| 9 | They were also seeking to purge their religion of recently acquired alien elements and to restore it to what they deemed its original purity . |
| 10 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |
| 11 | When gentle-folk rented horse-drawn transport from Mr Hobson , they were never allowed to select their own horse and carriage , but paid dearly for what Hobson deigned to provide ; hence the expression ‘ Hobson 's choice ’ , meaning no choice at all , but the necessity of making do with whatever was offered . |
| 12 | Of course , against England , purely in terms of the tackling , they were always going to find their expatriate , Dewi Morris , from scrum-half , an awful lot more of a handful than Rob Andrew . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , dear , what a shame when they were only trying to show their appreciation . ’ |