Example sentences of "were both [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a separate trial , held ten days after Rackam 's execution , two additional , and notably active , members of his crew were also sentenced to hang : these were the female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny , who were both reprieved upon informing the court that they were ‘ quick with child ’ . |
| 2 | they were both treated with |
| 3 | You were both circling like gladiators . |
| 4 | They were both assholes , and they were both boasting about their early sex lives . |
| 5 | She was talking quite loudly now and Robert and my mother were both listening to her . |
| 6 | Suddenly realising that she no longer had their attention , and that they were both listening to a woman 's voice loudly exclaiming from outside , she lamely tailed off . |
| 7 | Somewhere in the back of his mind he registered that they were both calling to him , Hank and Ma together . |
| 8 | Programmes to be cancelled or phased out ( subject to post-Gulf war evaluation ) included the navy 's F-14D fighter aircraft and Trident submarine , the airforce 's Maverick missile and F-15E and F-16 fighter aircraft and the army 's M-1 tank , Apache helicopter and Bradley fighting vehicle ; the remaining two US battleships , Missouri and Wisconsin , were both set to be decommissioned in September 1991 . |
| 9 | Hellman recalls that they were both toying with the idea of a western and talked to Corman about the finance . |
| 10 | They were both thinking about it when they were hailed from across the street . |
| 11 | I understand they were both hoping for a child , as well as his in-laws . |
| 12 | And then they were both looking at George , and he stretched his neck in his collar , tortoiselike , and said , a little gruffly , ‘ Where are you going ? ’ |
| 13 | Ace noticed that Howard and Petion were both looking at him strangely . |
| 14 | For a moment they were both looking at the gold band on Emilia 's wedding-finger . |
| 15 | We were both looking for comfort — I because of Marcus , you because of Lotta — and we found it together . |
| 16 | WHelan did nt look out of place , but in this match I feel that he and Deane were both looking for the same balls and not really working as a pair . |
| 17 | He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this . |
| 18 | Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists were both said to be planning campaigns to monitor progress towards democratic elections . |
| 19 | Last night they were both said to be ‘ stable ’ in York District Hospital . |
| 20 | The youths were both said to be aged 16 to 18 , 5ft 7in to 5ft 8in tall , and one had the name Pete tattooed on his knuckles . |
| 21 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |
| 22 | Jovic and the Montenegrin Presidency member Nenad Bucin were both absent from Mesic 's swearing-in . |
| 23 | According to foreign correspondents in Beijing , China 's " elder statesman " leader Deng Xiaoping , and the disgraced former party leader Zhao Ziyang , were both absent from the platform . |
| 24 | We were both dabbling in drink , drugs , and all that . |
| 25 | Sophie Mitchell , whose brothers Tim and Nick were both riding at the meeting , went to the Llangibby and won on Pernickety . |
| 26 | I think we were both wanting to be free , to write our own work , yet we were afraid to relinquish the relationship that had kept us writing together so long . |
| 27 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 28 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 29 | Police say the raider 's van and the antique dealer 's car were both seen at a service station near Manchester last night , so the crime could have been planned . |
| 30 | Mysterious , the black Labrador , and Blissful , the crossbreed , were both homed from Battersea and are featured on this month 's Dogs Today poster . |