Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were sent overseas the situation was different . |
| 2 | By dawn they were staking out the Radcliffe Infirmary , Grosvenor Square , Downing Street and Scotland Yard . |
| 3 | They were packing up the stalls when we left , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 4 | And they were treated exactly the same as any other player who came through . |
| 5 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 6 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 7 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 8 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 9 | They were dining together the night before their flight to Bucharest . |
| 10 | Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues . |
| 11 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 12 | While his crimes , he said , were not the ‘ worst form of indecent assault ’ they were made all the more serious because of his position . |
| 13 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |
| 14 | They were getting there the cheap way and combining adventure with the bonus of having their cars with them at the end . |
| 15 | In no time at all they were coasting down the slope out of the car park . |
| 16 | There was a van by the door and they were loading up the files , the contracts , documents , everything ; ’ |
| 17 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 18 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 19 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 20 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 21 | Most watches become false alarms ; nevertheless , they were buttoning up the collection and making sure that every completed aircraft was hangared . |
| 22 | CITY workers described last night what they were doing when the blast occurred . |
| 23 | Foreigners used mistakenly to think that British diplomats always knew what they were doing when the truth was they were dimly muddling through . |
| 24 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 25 | Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch . |
| 26 | But mostly , in my experience , they were paid just the same as we do we were , perhaps on a different day and a different method . |
| 27 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 28 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 29 | They were driving down the Boulevard St Germain towards the river ; the Seine 's fast-flowing current , parted hard against the piers of the bridges , seemed to Miranda 's eyes to capture the pace and temperament of this city where she felt so happy , where she wanted to stay . |
| 30 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |