Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If George Wigg 's political hatreds extended to George Brown and Richard Crossman , then they were to surface intensely with regard to the Profumo affair . |
| 2 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 3 | These salt ways certainly seem to have been used to transport salt from Droitwich in late-Saxon times and even later , but there can be little doubt that they were in existence long before then . |
| 4 | They were in bed together at the time , staring sadly at the ceiling . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , they were in London just before mid-day , following White Cross Street through Cricklegate . |
| 6 | He was serving on the battleship HMS Agincourt during the Battle of Jutland and related how they were in line astern to The Queen Mary and , when the latter was hit in the magazine and blew up , they sailed over the spot without feeling a thing . |
| 7 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |