Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bollards , decks and railings were ripped up . |
| 2 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 3 | The floorboards of the house were ripped up , and there they were . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 5 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 6 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 7 | By now we were careering round some Kentish country lanes near Swanley . |
| 8 | A band of children were careering about , playing tig . |
| 9 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 10 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 11 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 12 | Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation . |
| 13 | Gloucester were roared out and that was where the hospitality finished . |
| 14 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 15 | Even the hardened faggots of Manhattan ( I fancied ) were gazing down at us with concern from their lofts and condos and thinking — we 're pretty brazen , God knows , but these guys , they 'll queer the whole pitch . |
| 16 | Were those dark eyes that were gazing down at her really Guido 's ? |
| 17 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 18 | Along the edge of the plain the outriders that Burun had planted were galloping back to join the main body . |
| 19 | WE were spat on , sworn at and manhandled , but victory at the end of the day was ours . |
| 20 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 21 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 22 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 23 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 24 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 25 | Satellite reports confirmed that over three hundred armoured carriers were parked around the perimeter of the city ; large sections of the capital were blacked out and quiet after hours of gunfire and arson attacks . |
| 26 | Events were shaping up faster and worse than I could have expected . |
| 27 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 28 | We hung over the rim and were stared back at by our reflections , horribly deformed in the cracks of the thin ice . |
| 29 | This gave him a pang of disappointment ; however , in view of the providence they were enjoying in so many other respects , he did not allow the feeling to pierce him long . |
| 30 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |