Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 2 | And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ . |
| 3 | When they were asked whether they wanted to abandon the tournament if the rain did not ease the managers unanimously voted to continue . |
| 4 | Other bands just would n't give a toss , they 'd pose like they were asked if they thought they were going to get a front cover . ’ |
| 5 | Always , before a patient was seen or examined , they were asked if they minded a student being present . |
| 6 | Hospital authorities were warned that there may be some injuries from the competition at the resort 's Spa Pavilion , but they were floored when they got nine patients in quick succession . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 8 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 9 | They were strictly controlled by the instruction ( nakaz ) which they were given when they set out , whose emphasis was heavily on ceremonial , particularly on the use by foreigners of the tsar 's full title . |
| 10 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 11 | They were drunk when they arrived — two handsome , swaggering young thugs on leave from the Russian Front . |
| 12 | Father-of-two Steve said : ‘ I thought they were joking when they said I was not sufficiently disabled . ’ |
| 13 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 15 | and what they took all the treasures down into the cellars so they were saved and they rebuilt it . |
| 16 | I 'm sure Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolph did n't know what they were starting when they began making sports shoes in Germany in the Twenties . |
| 17 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |
| 18 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |
| 19 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 20 | I mean they , they were exploiting or they had they had the potential exploit more countries than Russia did . |
| 21 | And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it |
| 22 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 23 | ‘ They were crying because they knew friends and relatives were still in the area . ’ |
| 24 | Expelled from the comfort of home usually at the tender age of eight , they were compelled until they left school ( or , in some cases , university ) to associate almost exclusively with other boys , whose behaviour towards them was unpredictable . |
| 25 | At least under that system hundreds of young actors and actresses found regular employment under contract which meant they were paid whether they worked or not , whereas in 1990 the figures from the guild showed that at any one time as many as eighty-five per cent of its Los Angeles membership were not working . |
| 26 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 27 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 28 | But they were enraged when they reached Five Ways to discover the one exit door was locked . |
| 29 | After London Transport took over they were sold where they stood to Cohens for scrap on 9 May 1934 . |
| 30 | They were sitting as they had done as children years ago , Elaine with her legs tucked under her , Charles with his arms round his knees . |