Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This principle seems to imply that data should be destroyed when the specified purpose for which they were collected has been achieved . |
| 2 | The house where they were living has been re-possessed because the owner could n't keep up with the mortgage payments . |
| 3 | Moreover , the rent guarantees that they were given have been honoured . |
| 4 | All they were told to do was let me know if you became engaged . ’ |
| 5 | Later in my visit I travelled to a village where AIDS victims had been left to rot in a hut because they were thought to have been bewitched . |
| 6 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 7 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |