Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 2 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 3 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 4 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 5 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 6 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 7 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 8 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 9 | After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house . |
| 10 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 11 | The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers . |
| 12 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 13 | But after a while , after a while we were handed over to the er Spanish fascist authorities , proper . |
| 14 | There was scarcely any time for a cigarette before we were hustled over to the equipment store . |
| 15 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 16 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 17 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 18 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 19 | ‘ They were togged out to the nines . ’ |
| 20 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 21 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 22 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 23 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 24 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 25 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 26 | They were allowed out to the ground-floor cloakroom under tactful escort , and had been told they could telephone home from the library . |
| 27 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 28 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 29 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 30 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |