Example sentences of "were [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now live in the location of Sao Bento do Sul in the state of Santa Catarina , a little bit further south than Dois Vizinhos where they were during their previous assignment . |
| 2 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 3 | I should perhaps remind you that they would normally be somewhat warmer than they were during our inspection , at any rate during one half of the working day … |
| 4 | Within two minutes all the passengers were aboard their allotted transport and the cavalcade of machines , engines purring and sputtering sparks , moved off . |
| 5 | But I wanted to take him in while his eyes were off me . |
| 6 | Other men 's wives did proper jobs once the children were off their hands . |
| 7 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 8 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
| 9 | And yet again my mother used to go with him to deliver ba other babies as you know herself as we as we sort of grew up and we were off her hands . |
| 10 | Invitations arrived from hunts that were off her direct route home — the Quorn , Earl Ferrers , the Meynell … even from the Bedale , well to the north of her destination . |
| 11 | Her mother , Valerie , had returned to teaching after her family were off her hands , but she had been forced to give up her job to give Jennifer the care she needed . |
| 12 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 13 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 14 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 15 | But both men told police that the drugs were for their own personal use , said a DPP lawyer . |
| 16 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 17 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 18 | Green 's mountains are and were for him unlike those of Scotland with their purple grandeur and exotic shapes , nor did they have their awesome desolation . |
| 19 | Irwin 's first public act upon arriving in India was to appeal , in terms that were for him impassioned , for harmony between Muslims and Hindus . |
| 20 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 21 | It did n't need a Russian scholar to understand that the bald man was claiming that the documents and the guns were for him , only food and drink for the ‘ businessmen ’ . |
| 22 | Any fears , however , that Havel 's talent might be going off were for me resolved by the broadcast version of Redevelopment , given a dramatised reading by the RSC in February under the title Slum Clearance . |
| 23 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 24 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 25 | His last words , she said , as he was driven away , were for me . |
| 26 | I thought your efforts were for me . ’ |
| 27 | Summer outings the next year were for her a misery . |
| 28 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 29 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 30 | He wrote girls ' phone numbers in the back of the book so that she would think the stars were for something else if she snooped around . |