Example sentences of "they [was/were] also [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We had paid some money to the police to look after us and they were also taking money from the journalists , and giving us their news , and ours to them !
2 They were also wearing safety helmets . ’
3 Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs .
4 Slowly it began to dawn on school board trustees and education bureaucrats that immigrants were not only voters , they were also tax payers .
5 They were also quizzing friends to establish any reason for the ordeal .
6 They were also organising business planning courses for their doctors and dentists .
7 In December it decided that they were also to acquire farmland .
8 They were also declared League champions in a new competition in which winners of the Midland and Lancashire sections played each other on a home-away basis .
9 More importantly They were also recruiting persons whom they had been obliged to make redundant in the face of earlier downturns and who were fully conversant with their own particular operations .
10 They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time .
11 They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent .
12 They were also watermill enthusiasts and continued the work of restoration that was begun by Michael Manser by restoring the waterwheel to working condition .
13 It was a decoy to hide the fact that they were also killing members of the political opposition .
14 During this time the bishops were not only rubbing shoulders with the experts in the coffee shop ( known as the Bar-Jonah ) , but they were also attending lectures by the periti .
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