Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 32 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 33 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 34 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 35 | He preached to the World Scout Jamboree and was blamed by the Daily Telegraph for reading his sermon to a multitude of boys and that the notes were too visible when they were blown about by the wind . |
| 36 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |
| 37 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 38 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 39 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 40 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 41 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 42 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 43 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 44 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 45 | Conservationists discovered the extent of the destruction when they were allowed back into the area recently . |
| 46 | They were allowed out to the ground-floor cloakroom under tactful escort , and had been told they could telephone home from the library . |
| 47 | Now we knew they had accepted the box as their home and would probably come back to it even if they were allowed out in the open . |
| 48 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 49 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 50 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 51 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 52 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 53 | In 1921 they were scrapped along with the wages boards . |
| 54 | After her coy glances and generous cups of wine , they were lured out into the dark so Rachel might speak where no spy could overhear . |
| 55 | From what I could gather they were showing in in the area where the new ticket office is , as opposed to a bit screen on the pitch facing the east stand as they propose for the scum game ( And they 're getting a beer license for this too ! ! ! ! ! ) . |
| 56 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 57 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 58 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 59 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 60 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |