Example sentences of "they [vb past] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 2 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 3 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 4 | ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury . |
| 5 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 6 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 7 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 8 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 9 | They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit . |
| 10 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 11 | what happened next was a landslide … everything Southend did went right … every shot they hit was on target … and every chance was taken … |
| 12 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 13 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 15 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 16 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 17 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 18 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
| 19 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |
| 20 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 21 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 22 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 23 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 24 | This father insisted that all they wanted was for their children to receive a schooling based on English traditions and values . |
| 25 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 26 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 27 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |