Sentence examples for they were bitten from inspiring English sources

Values given are numbers (percentages) of respondents When the participants were asked the question "when in Scotland alone in an area with midges, how often are you bitten?" the majority (85.8%, n = 310) said they were bitten sometimes, often or always with only 14.2% claiming to never be bitten.

When the participants were asked the question "when in Scotland in an area with midges with others, how often are you bitten?" the majority (88.4%, n = 303) said they were bitten sometimes, often or always with only 11.6% claiming to never be bitten.

"They were bitten by their own snake," she said.

People think that because they have seen a spider just before they were bitten, it was the spider that bit them.

She has found antibodies to malaria in some birds, she said, and assumes that they were bitten during their winter migration to coastal Brazil but survived.

Before they were bitten by the vintage bug, Ms. Miltenberger said, they owned a 1989 32-foot Suncrest motor home, the biggest model available when they bought it.

"They were biting us in the boat, and they were biting us on land," he said.

I asked Merle how they were biting back at Lake Shasta, near his home in Northern California.

She said everybody wanted it – they were biting her hand off to get surgery.

The mosquitoes were out in force, but if they were biting the Mayor he didn't let on.

"The bite marks are deep, they were biting straight into the bone and they were taking off a lot of bone," Dr. Longrich said.