Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 2 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 3 | The Madison banks collapsed after sustaining huge losses on real estate loans , many of which were made to the banks ' directors , employees and their relatives . |
| 4 | The system of private ownership , and the profits which were made by the captains , made it very probable that the command would go to a friend of the owner , or , since many of the ships were owned by partnerships , to one of the actual proprietors of the vessel . |
| 5 | The little money that was needed to pay state taxes and church tithes and to fund festivals , was obtained from the sale of cotton lengths , which were made by the women . |
| 6 | Instead there were Kinks in it where the rods joined it , and the ends of the rods were attached to collars which were secured around the kinks . |
| 7 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 8 | Originally , all first-born sons were dedicated to God , but monetary gifts later took their place , which were given to the priests . |
| 9 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 10 | Thus , while these enlightened times continued , there existed little of the prejudice and fanaticism which were engendered by the Crusades . |
| 11 | The numerically dominant stratum of unskilled labour encompassed and eventually unified two distinct traditions which were related to the origins of their members , namely , rural labour from the depressed eastern counties and the casual poor from East London . |
| 12 | But it is important to appreciate the sorts of conventions which were adopted by the engravers of coin dies in their attempts to represent three-dimensional structures on a two-dimensional plane . |
| 13 | As Lord Diplock said in Ashington Piggeries : The " description " by which unascertained goods are sold is , in my view , confined to those words in the contract which were intended by the parties to identify the kind of goods which were to be supplied . |
| 14 | From the Romans the French learned great fruit-growing skills which were developed in the monasteries . |
| 15 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 16 | This belief was fostered by the churches , the floors and walls of which were incised with the records of those who had gone before , but it was expressed positively in the family . |
| 17 | Even the clusters of medicinal herbs , which were tied to the rafters to dry , had been brought outside and carefully stacked away . |
| 18 | My non-uniform clothes , which were worn in the evenings and at weekends , were also secondhand , bought in a secrecy which my mother insisted on , from a shop in Notting Hill . |
| 19 | In a very different sense London Docklands was an invented place , a series of disparate communities which were united by the imperatives of a specific form of development chosen for them by an imposed Urban Development Corporation ( chapter 2 ) . |
| 20 | In an interview in Zhongguo Qingnian Bao on 16 August , Su Xiao Kang , one of the writers of the series , talked about the concerns which were expressed by the authorities and the pressures to make some changes before the repeats . |
| 21 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 22 | The cottage estates which were built under the provisions of the Tudor-Walters Report were conceived as purely residential districts and in fact were municipal suburbs . |
| 23 | Žižka went on successfully to defend Bohemia from the crusades which were preached against the Hussites who , by this time , had acquired a thoroughly democratic and Protestant cast . |
| 24 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 25 | 4.3.6 The Lead Organization shall be notified by the other Non-academic Parties of the proceeds less refurbishment costs received by such Party from the disposal of any prototypes the costs of which were included in the grants paid to such Party . |
| 26 | The-building , white with red shutters , faced over the vineyards , which were tended by the residents of the home , most of whom had been wounded . |
| 27 | He avoided Alexei 's eyes , and ran his fingers over the grain of the layers of wood and horn which were compressed between the clamps . |
| 28 | Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid . |
| 29 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 30 | In his famous and beautifully illustrated book Les Promenades de Paris ( 2 vols , 1867 — 73 ) Alphand talks not only of his landscaping but also of the flowers , shrubs , and trees which he used to ornament his creations , while his illustrations show details of the furnishings and small kiosks and pavilions which were established in the parks . |