Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 2 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 3 | I mean it was , you , you were sent out of the room . |
| 4 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 7 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |
| 10 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 11 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 12 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 13 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 14 | And er then we were led through into the assembly area . |
| 15 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 18 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 19 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 20 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 21 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 22 | We were shown around by the site director , who pointed out some of its features and also the spoil heaps . |
| 23 | We visited the Baltic Yacht Club , owned by the Baltic Shipping Company , where we were shown around by the friendly vice commodore , Alexey Bulkanov . |
| 24 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 25 | The Bundesbank was heavily criticised by our Government for not coming to the rescue of the pound on Black Wednesday when we were forced out of the ERM . |
| 26 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 27 | We were wiped out in the scrum and in the line-out . |
| 28 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |
| 29 | After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house . |
| 30 | 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 . |