Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] they were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That started because I think Charles saw that they were eventually going had to give way to twenty additional fire fighters and they were looking for safety within the service . |
| 2 | ‘ We pulled back two goals and they were kicking the ball anywhere to keep us out . ’ |
| 3 | He had to , i th he was up on ladders and they were washing o you know sign up on top ? |
| 4 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 5 | Cambridge looked anything but promotion contenders and they were flattered by the final scoreline . |
| 6 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 7 | A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets . |
| 8 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 9 | The children were then to be given clues to help them solve the mysteries and they were to tell the Pink Panther ( who was not privy to this information ) who had committed which crime . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's that supposed to mean ? ’ asked Rose , and grimaced ; she was wearing new shoes and they were giving her gyp . |
| 11 | There were comparatively few incomers and they were dispersed among the native population ( estate building for incomers did not peak until 1976 , and none existed before 1974 ) . |
| 12 | They were not forced to use private contractors but they were required to make a judgement on the best value for their health authority . |
| 13 | There was less consensus about following six areas but they were considered important for future research : |
| 14 | Because of the scarcity of ministers , young conforming curates were appointed to many of the kirks but they were disliked , ignored and often abused by the congregations . |
| 15 | Under Nixon 's " revenue sharing " scheme , money was allocated to the states and they were left to spend it , with many fewer strings attached than in the " Great Society " period . |
| 16 | Although hopelessly outnumbered , the schiltron hedgehogs held the English cavalry at bay until the remorseless fire of archers thinned their ranks and they were defeated . |
| 17 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 18 | The children were in the correct seats and they were strapped in properly . |
| 19 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 20 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 21 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 22 | Yeah , well one lot of tablets were , was , they were n't for relaxing tablets but they were called er |
| 23 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
| 24 | They had laid down their War Aims and they were waiting for Germany to speak . |
| 25 | And they had big rocket things and they were throwing them . |
| 26 | The neutralist and non-aligned states associated military base rights with bloc alignment and alliance structures and they were encouraged in their opposition to these rights by the Soviet Union which since the mid 1950s has consistently denied the existence of Soviet bases on foreign territories . |
| 27 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 28 | The cards had nothing on them but apparently meaningless hieroglyphics and they were thrown to the ground to add to the litter that so distresses London Transport . |
| 29 | Thus , during the late 1940s , five of every six newly-built dwellings were council houses or flats and they were allocated according to need rather than according to income . |
| 30 | ‘ We got as close as we dared and we could see torches and they were using … |