Example sentences of "was [verb] [subord] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , there 's the holes where it was unscrewed before they brought it here for an altar . |
| 2 | He told himself that he had little to fear ; but he was sweating as they made their way into the city . |
| 3 | Always a footballing footballer , even when under pressure in defence , Derek 's quality was there for all to see and the appreciation of the Palace fans was shown when they elected him as our Player of the Year in 1975 . |
| 4 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 6 | The stolen car was damaged as they made their getaway and the three men transferred to Wishart 's own car and drove to his mother 's home where they shared out the money in the attic . |
| 7 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 8 | Not a word was spoken as they made their way to the bar , but a well chilled bottle of wine was uncorked and waiting … |
| 9 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 10 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 11 | She was smiling when they reached her , apparently unconcerned by the blood . |