Example sentences of "[conj] were [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 2 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 3 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 4 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 5 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |