Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 . " |
| 2 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 5 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 6 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 7 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 8 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 9 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 10 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 11 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 12 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |