Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 2 | Ah , somebody was oh they were with the gyppos or something . |
| 3 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 4 | She opened her mouth to say they were with the police , but abruptly changed her mind . |
| 5 | Rather , they were with the events of August 1968 and , in particular , with the self-immolation of the young philosophy student , Jan Palach , in January 1969 . |
| 6 | They were on the ramparts with you during the battle . |
| 7 | And then all the , all the little children , some of them with very serious illnesses , but seeing how brave they were on the wards , it was a very moving six months . |
| 8 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 9 | Williams team management said they were on the protestors ' side . |
| 10 | The titles of both episodes are also confused in the way they were on the Police Squad TV series . |
| 11 | They were on the stairs again before Lizzie spoke , when she said , ‘ He 'll ruin her if you 're not careful . |
| 12 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 13 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 14 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 15 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 16 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 17 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 18 | They were under no illusions . |
| 19 | They were very conservative in their political outlook and wanted things to remain exactly as they were under the Romans . |
| 20 | Once they were outside the grounds , the thieves dumped one vehicle and used another to make their get-away , with the cream coloured caravan in tow . |
| 21 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 22 | On the 17th they were past the mountains . |
| 23 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 24 | They were near the ports where the tin was imported . |
| 25 | Then they were amongst the conifers near the road , a smell of resin and dead bracken , twigs catching their legs . |
| 26 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 27 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 28 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 29 | They were in the suburbs and she replied that she would prefer the Royal Avenue Hotel in the centre of the city . |
| 30 | They were in the cottages . ’ |