Example sentences of "they were [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six minutes before half time , they were punished for their shortcomings when Durrant gave Rangers the lead . |
| 2 | Before they were asked for their views on the cash flow statement , the analysts were asked to rate the importance of sources of information about the company for investment decisions . |
| 3 | The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . |
| 4 | Almost 400 ministers refused to conform to this imposition of Episcopacy and as a result they were debarred from their kirks , deprived of their livelihoods , and disqualified from acting as ministers . |
| 5 | Very similar to BOGIES used to chastise children , hobyahs kidnapped people and imprisoned them in caves , where they had to mine for fairy gold before they were eaten for their pains . |
| 6 | They were alerted by his screams and helped douse the flames before calling the emergency services . |
| 7 | There had been lots of problems , and they were rushed off their feet . |
| 8 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 9 | The two women had barely crossed the threshold before they were halted in their tracks . |
| 10 | An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map . |
| 11 | The musicians were knocked over like a row of skittles and all came to rest higgledy-piggledy as they were stopped in their tracks by a magnificent horse chestnut tree . |
| 12 | They were locked in their cells till 8.30 when they were let out for chapel . |
| 13 | In his victory speech he was gracious towards Brown and Tsongas voters , saying they were united with his supporters in wanting to oust Mr Bush . |
| 14 | They had taken the brunt of battle during the war against Chaos and yet they were reviled by their fellows . |
| 15 | The young American girls who surprised cynical men-about-town in the Paris of Napoleon III by the freedom with which they were allowed by their parents to go about alone and in the company of young American men are as strong evidence about sexual morals as journalistic exposés of haunts of vice in mid-Victorian London : probably stronger . |
| 16 | They were imitated by their elders and again , the novel behaviour of the few became the accepted behaviour of the group . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , the only conclusion is that they were lured to their deaths . |
| 18 | But the rest of the England squad looked bright and enthusiastic as they were put through their paces by a manager who knows his future rests on victory against the Poles . |
| 19 | The peasant rank and file had demonstrated how deeply they were alienated from their masters and how readily they would seize upon civil disorder and weakening of the regime 's authority to rebel against the serf-like conditions of service . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | They were discharged by their employers and the dispute spread , the union alleging that its agreement with the Association of 19 August 1911 provided that only foremen were exempted from holding a Transport Workers ' Federation card , which the employers denied . |
| 22 | They were permitted by their superiors to take personal booty back with them . |
| 23 | There are hardly any reports of home sickness and many accounts of how the children cried bitterly when they were removed by their parents . |
| 24 | The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard . |
| 25 | Like everyone else , they were taken into whatever jobs were available for them . |
| 26 | As they emerged through the smoke and chaos , with uniforms shredded and faces blackened , they were taken by their countrymen defending the fort outside to be that most feared of enemies — French African troops — and were relentlessly mown down . |
| 27 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 28 | They were chosen by their sponsors , the Prince 's Youth Business Trust , to share a stand at the Earls Court show . |
| 29 | At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now . |
| 30 | It could be a Roman or Saxon burial ground and they were buried with their treasures . |