were – phrases

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efforts were rewarded	усилия были вознаграждены (In subsequent years, speculation surrounding the strange disappearance of the weathervane swirled in large part thanks to the work of historian Michel Sabatery, who often wrote about the odd tale. His efforts to keep the story alive were rewarded this past November when he received an unexpected package containing the stolen piece. (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver)
we were lied to	нас обманывали ("I know and I've seen the body cam footage that was released by the court when the SWAT team entered Stephen Craig Paddock's room... one of the team members, Corey was his name, is going from window to window saying, 'We have no broken window,'" he reported. They enter a connected room and find guns stacked neatly, but no shells anywhere, he continued. According to Mark, after Paddock has been dead for 90 minutes the sound of machine gun fire by commandos can be heard. "We were lied to" about the shooting and Paddock was a Patsy, Mark suggested. -- Нас обманывали. coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver)