Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 2 | They were on strike there . |
| 3 | ‘ They were on shore nearly a week , then Flint came back alone . |
| 4 | All bands smiled when they were on TV then . |
| 5 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 6 | In the second half , they were on top again , but just could n't get the first goal , which was always going to be vital in such a close battle . |
| 7 | They were on heat socially . |
| 8 | And as we quit the singer 's house , I remember the words that Bonnie Raitt said to John Lee when they were on stage earlier this year in nearby Sweetwater . |
| 9 | If her cheeks had been hot when he arrived , they were on fire now . |
| 10 | ‘ Then other men came and other eagles , and seeing the Stones they were at peace there and did not harm each other . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Daisy has a friend living in Rome , ’ said Edwin , ‘ Nellie Musgrove — they were at school together . |
| 12 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 13 | I think they were at school together . ’ |
| 14 | They were at rest just now , as if Daine were pausing in his expansion or had met some unforeseen check . |
| 15 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was believed that they were to stage yet another demonstration at the Party conference , this time during tomorrow 's crucially important debate on immigration . |
| 18 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 20 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 21 | They were in Blenheim now . |
| 22 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She knew what was going to happen later when they were in bed together . |
| 25 | They were in bed together at the time , staring sadly at the ceiling . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , they were in London just before mid-day , following White Cross Street through Cricklegate . |
| 27 | At dawn they were in autumn again , and as they rode on , they came back into winter . |
| 28 | The last time we saw the Oxford Hawks they were in action indoors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | th they were in Vietnam right , and er |