Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] were [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they could n't find anybody living round by me that were employed . |
| 2 | The more of them that were shipped abroad , the better for them ( because they would improve their conditions ) and for those left behind ( because the labour market would be less overstocked ) . |
| 3 | It is sometimes difficult for children to remember which things are theirs or were made by them . |
| 4 | In the centre loomed a squat Tower of brown stone up which the shade steadily crept as the shadows on the ground reached out into nothing and were lost . |
| 5 | Two of the servants doubled the funds entrusted to them and were praised for their efforts . |
| 6 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Coulson and Davison were concerned with arranging the ringing while the others stole cars for them and were paid £200 for each vehicle . |
| 7 | It seemed to be calling to them and Carrie thought of fairy tales she had read — you looked back at something behind you and were caught in its spell ! |
| 8 | But the one that were carted out on the fields , they were left with the leaves on because the cattle ate the leave as well . |
| 9 | Hereford rolled up their sleeves , gave it everything and were rewarded with an equaliser from Derek Hall … |
| 10 | Hereford rolled up their sleeves , gave it everything and were rewarded with an equaliser from Derek Hall … |
| 11 | We took the opportunity to drive the outgoing model while we had the new one and were left in no doubt about which was the driver 's car . |
| 12 | They belonged to him and were used only by his authority . |
| 13 | Insects crawled beneath her skin , burrowed into her and were pecked out by flitting birds , which crossed her forest vision in a fleeting moment , came to her , and were gone , their beaks a brief sting upon her bark . |
| 14 | He wondered it if were connected in some way with the fouling of the water system . |
| 15 | They tried it and were baffled . |
| 16 | The trees on every side of the magazine bent away from it and were stripped of their leaves . |
| 17 | The means was to restrict the legal provision of credit to those who applied for it and were granted a licence . |
| 18 | It has now been abolished , mainly because a number of middle-class children failed it and were sent to nonacademic schools . |
| 19 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 20 | We applied to hire it but were told it was not available until refurbished and handed over to the community association . |
| 21 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 22 | Apart from the household staffs , many of them must have stayed on since it was the houses themselves that were dissolved , not their economic base , the estates . |
| 23 | Darlington created very little themselves and were torn apart by Stoke 's new-look forward line , which included former Everton star Adrian Heath . |
| 24 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 25 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 26 | A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone . |