Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 2 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 3 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 4 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 5 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 6 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 7 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 8 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 9 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 10 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 11 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 12 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 13 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 14 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 15 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 16 | She had guessed Robert and others were manipulating her as a chess piece in a game whose rules and ultimate aim were a mystery . |
| 17 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 18 | He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly , concealing his fear as best he could ; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren . |
| 19 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |