Example sentences of "[prep] they was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's ballet for them was given in their first programme , presented at Chatham on 20 September 1948 . |
| 2 | The tension between them was destroyed with such wanton savagery that Melanie fell limply back and struggled with tears . |
| 3 | The new occupants of the throne owed their position to Parliament , and the new relationship between them was asserted by statute in the Bill of Rights . |
| 4 | The sun was well up now , and the city below them was wreathed in mists and lull of foul vapours . |
| 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 | Nos. 11 and 13 were used for the inspection of the Crystal Palace route and these cars took over the working of the Penge route as soon as the Corporation cars were withdrawn in June 1906 and in the same month , one of them was fitted with Raworth regenerative equipment for a demonstration on Anerley Hill for tramway engineers . |
| 8 | There were real threats to Western security , but not one of them was uncovered by Senator McCarthy . |
| 9 | One of them was dressed in a Bugs Bunny rabbit costume and was handing out leaflets . |
| 10 | One of them was seen on the pavement outside Mrs Shelley 's home on both Monday and Tuesday , February 8 and 9 , at about 7 am . |
| 11 | Sorry , I thought you said that each of them was in all the rest of them and each of them was coloured by the host . |
| 12 | One of them was complaining in a quiet , slow alto voice that her husband was in the habit of leaving everything lying on the floor ; books , socks , newspapers , even matches and pipes . |
| 13 | Ridley J. held that putting the 190 boxes on the rail was not in this case an unconditional appropriation because it was impossible to say which of them was appropriated to any given buyer . |
| 14 | There were fewer of them and they were shorter than his mother 's and none of them was dated beyond giving a day of the week . |
| 15 | To be a eunuch was a curse ; even the sight of them was defiling to a Brahmin . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he would have to be , would n't he ? because it was in the papers only last week that one of them was sent along the line to Durham for fighting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly . |
| 19 | I phoned seven companies at the end of September and not one of them was selling at the price advertised . |
| 20 | In England , the obligation to own arms and to train in the use of them was shared by all male adults , as the Assize of Arms of 1181 and the Statute of Winchester of 1285 made clear . |
| 21 | Whatever the battles that occurred between us , none of them was fought in the province of the night . |
| 22 | The the coal man did n't have to deal with money because I think some of them was dipping into their bags you know . |
| 23 | Another group of men across the aisle on the opposite table were equally detached , and one of them was staring at Benstede 's back with such venom that Corbett became alarmed . |
| 24 | These paintings have a special place in my affections , because one of them was reproduced on the cover of my first book . |
| 25 | One of them was detonated on Aug. 14 about 50 km north of the city of León ; the line had already been closed by the railway authorities . |
| 26 | Boswell : ‘ One of them was frothed like a syllabub . |
| 27 | One of them was knelt on my head , one was kneeling on my legs and one was knelt on the small of my back while the 4th one was putting the handcuffs on . |
| 28 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 29 | One of them was meant for him . |
| 30 | Constraints imposed by good evaluation practice are rather more severe : an elegant statement of them was produced by the US Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation ( 1981 ) . |