Example sentences of "of they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You found them everywhere and in the sun all of them were beginning to be too big for their blue jeans and jackets that they could never fill when they were on the bum and hungry . |
| 2 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 3 | All but two of them were found to be leading personal lives that were full of achievement . |
| 4 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 5 | One of them was sentenced to be burned alive , and the other hanged , punishments dictated , apparently , not by their sexuality as such but their transvestism and use of the dildo — at once , I want to suggest , appropriations of masculinity , inversions of it , and substitutions for it . |
| 6 | was that the one where hang on let me think what it was , there 's some , there 's a it was , at Oxford College were n't it and one of them was trying to be a like high up in the church or something |
| 7 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 8 | Although several differences in pretreatment characteristics of responders versus non-responders were observed , none of them was found to be significant . |
| 9 | When the first of them was brought to be executed , he placed his neck on the block and the executioner pulled the handle to release the blade . |