Example sentences of "they were [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |
| 2 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 3 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 4 | And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ . |
| 5 | When they were asked whether they wanted to abandon the tournament if the rain did not ease the managers unanimously voted to continue . |
| 6 | Other bands just would n't give a toss , they 'd pose like they were asked if they thought they were going to get a front cover . ’ |
| 7 | Always , before a patient was seen or examined , they were asked if they minded a student being present . |
| 8 | But I looked at Mother as they were kissing and she had seen all right . |
| 9 | It 's a bonus to have your papers delivered , but my newspaper boy , like all others , had perfected the art of cramming them in the letter box so that they were shredded as you pulled them inside . |
| 10 | Already they were aroused and she longed for the water against her overheated skin to caress and tease her further and she longed to plunge in beside Fernando and for him to … |
| 11 | Hospital authorities were warned that there may be some injuries from the competition at the resort 's Spa Pavilion , but they were floored when they got nine patients in quick succession . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 13 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 14 | There were moments of hope , such as the time Gary seemed to settle in the scouts , but they were dashed when he stole the troop 's funds . |
| 15 | They were strictly controlled by the instruction ( nakaz ) which they were given when they set out , whose emphasis was heavily on ceremonial , particularly on the use by foreigners of the tsar 's full title . |
| 16 | And Mum , if Dave and Anna call round for me tomorrow morning can you tell them we 've gone to the Prince Charles baths and to come there , and Mum , I went to the shoemender 's to collect my sandals , but they were shut and I need them for tomorrow evening because — Oh , thanks Mum . |
| 17 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 18 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 19 | They were drunk when they arrived — two handsome , swaggering young thugs on leave from the Russian Front . |
| 20 | Father-of-two Steve said : ‘ I thought they were joking when they said I was not sufficiently disabled . ’ |
| 21 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 22 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 24 | and what they took all the treasures down into the cellars so they were saved and they rebuilt it . |
| 25 | I 'm sure Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolph did n't know what they were starting when they began making sports shoes in Germany in the Twenties . |
| 26 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 27 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 28 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 29 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |
| 30 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |