Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owners signalled how serious they were about halting the pay spiral last year when they first detached labour negotiations from the baseball commissioner , Fay Vincent , and then detached Mr Vincent from his job . |
| 2 | Headteachers were much more optimistic about tackling casual truancy , skipping days here and there , than they were about tackling persistent truancy , sustained absence from school over weeks and months . |
| 3 | and they were to charged them two hundred pounds . |
| 4 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 5 | They were , they were for grabbing stuff out for and stone cold general cargo , anything . |
| 6 | But shortly after the trial the twin 's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages . |
| 7 | Their worries followed confirmation by Ford bosses that they were considering setting up a seat production plant in Poland . |
| 8 | In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti . |
| 9 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 10 | As to the Government 's position on the green form scheme , my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said that instead of an arrangement unique to the immigration appellate system , whereby public funds finance two sources of free advice — UKIAS and green form — they were considering concentrating the provision of free advice through UKIAS , so that only that organisation would be publicly funded to give advice . |
| 11 | Several unsuccessful companies announced that they were considering challenging the commission 's decisions in court . |
| 12 | In Chicago everyone knew Fingers but none of the promoters thought they were worth taking a risk on . |
| 13 | The Scots had lost — but members of the most dazzling court in Europe , the model for the kingdoms of northern Europe , found that they were worth visiting , and they were worth fighting . |
| 14 | The Scots had lost — but members of the most dazzling court in Europe , the model for the kingdoms of northern Europe , found that they were worth visiting , and they were worth fighting . |
| 15 | They were off running the travel business and having affairs with all those couriers and secretaries and people while the wives prayed and cooked and had babies . ’ |
| 16 | Somebody in the office proved how resourceful they were by organising the help of three local firemen and together they completed the job in time for Monday morning . |
| 17 | If he gave Lee the torch , he 'd let Jack and everyone else know where they were by mucking around with it , and if he did n't let him have it , he 'd most likely give them both away by having a scene . |
| 18 | She could trace where they were by pinpointing him on Hal 's map . |
| 19 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 20 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
| 21 | Even so , the more successful they were in boosting speed and trimming fuel needs , the worse ocean freighters ' economics became . |
| 22 | The condemned techniques had already been used in experimental interrogations in the month or two prior to the UUAC general strike and had demonstrated how effective they were in inducing confessions . |
| 23 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
| 24 | Especially in the Belfast area , people would work for him , not because he was an evangelical who denounced apostasy and promoted sabbatarianism and temperance , but because he was a strong loyalist who articulated their suspicions that the leaders of the Unionist Party — ‘ the fur coat brigade ’ — were rather more interested in looking after themselves than they were in protecting working-class Protestants . |
| 25 | Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees . |
| 26 | All candidates said they were against testing on animals for cosmetic purposes . |
| 27 | They galloped up until they were within shouting distance , exchanged words with Arghatun , and then rode away again . |
| 28 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 29 | They were like dancing partners , waltzing away into darkness . |
| 30 | They was on making a good living and still do I think . |