Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 5 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 6 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 7 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 8 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 9 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 10 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 11 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 12 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 13 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 14 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 15 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 16 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 17 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 18 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 19 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 20 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 23 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 24 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 25 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 26 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 27 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 28 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 29 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 30 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |