Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or they were cast by the lost wax process from a model made of wax rods . |
| 2 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 3 | They 're trying to er knock or they were trying to knock News at Ten on the head . |
| 4 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 5 | Miss Logan lost count of the times their luggage was detained , or they were told that a buyurulda or special permit would be necessary in addition to the tezkare they had already procured ; but Miss Fergusson , with assistance from a dragoman whose own brief display of independent thought had been snuffed out early on , harried , demanded and succeeded . |
| 6 | Either they are in nature , or they were mixed together with the yellow spots of unidentified sources . ’ |
| 7 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 8 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 9 | I never fed them or they were to look after themselves . |
| 10 | I wish we were playing them , or they were playing the Scousers/Arsenal/Man City even . |
| 11 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 12 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 13 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 14 | And they were supported by the British . |
| 15 | And they were supported by a pool of engineers and technicians at |
| 16 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 17 | Most of them came fro Blundell 's School and Castle Cary CC in Somerset , and they were styled the Devon & Somerset County Wanderers . |
| 18 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 19 | Identical meals were prepared for each study day and they were eaten within 30 minutes of serving . |
| 20 | They had banners and they were shouting . " |
| 21 | Animals were housed in an animal care facility that is approved by the American Association for Accrediaton of Laboratory Animal Care and they were exposed to 12 hours of alternating light and dark cycles . |
| 22 | The irises of his eyes were almost large enough to exclude the whites and they were coloured light green like grapes and flecked with gold . |
| 23 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 24 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 25 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 26 | With the development of the law standard principles for interpreting defective dispositions emerged , and they were applied as much to legacies as to trusts . |
| 27 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 28 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 29 | And it would start again and they were singing all lovely and they 'd get half way through the tape and he was going yeow yeow . |
| 30 | and they were singing the territory , hello darling , they were singing their territorial songs |