Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 2 | offered initially and they were followed up by Philip of Singapore and erm |
| 3 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 4 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 5 | And they were egged on by some Labour MPs and councillors who refused to comply with the law themselves . |
| 6 | Hutchesons/Aloysians ' victory by 31-13 at Union Park against Corstorphine was not enough and they were edged out of the race on points difference . |
| 7 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 8 | Her husband had just finished the day 's work at his butcher 's shop and they were settling down to supper . |
| 9 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 10 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 11 | And then it was over , and they were coming out into the grey , windy day , the mothers trying not to look at the white-capped sea beyond the point , the boys suddenly gruff and silent now that the moment of parting was come . |
| 12 | We went there , we took it with us , all this load , And what it was it was a forces couple and they were coming back to this country from Germany or somewhere like that , so we had n't seen them . |
| 13 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 14 | and they were added on after . |
| 15 | ‘ But when I came in they were clearly not ready and they were running around for tyres . |
| 16 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 18 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 19 | Well there was you would er buy your errands and they was marked down in a book at the shop . |
| 20 | We wo n't know till tomorrow what sort of dog 's breakfast they 'll dish up out of it , but they were waffling on about the poor little guinea-pig baby . |
| 21 | But they were turned back by police who 'd found drugs at the scene . |
| 22 | But they were beaten back by thick smoke before they could reach young Sandy Lee . |
| 23 | I ca n't describe it , she had , her legs were out to the side , but they were pointing down like that |
| 24 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 25 | But they were held up by complications in getting visas . |
| 26 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 27 | But they were driven back by a hail of huge roof slates . |