Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show continued until Christmas by which time Mr Smith and Doris realized they were facing up to a new way of life that would challenge them even more than the lean and difficult times of the thirties . |
| 2 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 3 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 4 | In the case of Larbert , they were sent out to every applicant who sought them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 7 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |
| 8 | Perhaps , like the mudskipper , they were tempted out by a hitherto untapped source of food , for already at this period there were abundant worms , snails and the ancestors of insects . |
| 9 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 10 | Although many of the yeniçeri forgot all about their origins and became fanatical Muslims , behaving oppressively to their former compatriots when they were posted back into the Balkans , others , like Sokolović , kept in contact with their people and tried to help them . |
| 11 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 12 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 13 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 16 | They were flapping round on the |
| 17 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 18 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 19 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 20 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 21 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 24 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 25 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 26 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 27 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 28 | They were constructed up to a height of 50 feet in three or four storeys ( height of buildings was limited by Roman law ) . |
| 29 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 30 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |