Example sentences of "they were [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 2 | Yet many of these people had never told anyone about their experience(s) — until they were asked point-blank by a sympathetic researcher ( Hay , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | As with so many of Eliot 's apparently portentous remarks , I fancy that they were uttered partly in a quizzical manner , and that the mock solemnity was intended to convey the idea of a conspiratorial ritual . |
| 4 | Unfancied Cumbria were disappointingly unable to reproduce the form that produced that remarkable upset at Aspatria when they beat the title holders a year ago , and they were swept aside in a second-half torrent of scoring . |
| 5 | I did , however , remember us asking the children if they were looking forward to a fortnight in Umbria . |
| 6 | There are some 300 such places in south-west France , the finest of them a little north of here , in Gas cony , and they were built largely to a rectangular pattern of intersecting streets with a sometimes very generous town square in the centre . |
| 7 | Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations . |
| 8 | They were covered outside by a protective mesh which looked like chicken wire on which the dirt of decades had accumulated , so that the panes were honeycombs of greenish grime . |
| 9 | They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 . |
| 10 | The first survivors who reached the shore regrouped up the estuary past the bony tangles of mangrove in the forest at the arranged meeting place ; they were met there by a waiting group of islanders , men and women , ready to re-arm them and send them into battle . |
| 11 | The star kissed her three children goodbye before they were whisked away in a chauffeur-driven car with their nanny and John 's brother Patrick . |
| 12 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 13 | Late on Saturday night , they were smuggled away to a safe area of the field and one of the teams was driven home to London . |
| 14 | Suddenly Graham realised — with a small , disquieting feeling in his stomach — that they were standing right outside a place which always made him feel apprehensive . |
| 15 | On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices . |
| 16 | But there they were working together as a community , there in the great communal fields , where everybody had their own plot , but working together . |
| 17 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 18 | During the course of the fieldwork under discussion here , they were used principally as a means of access to user groups and also as foils for cross-checking general data provided by other informants . |
| 19 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 20 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 21 | They were crowded together in a corner , their tails pointing the same way . |
| 22 | In a similar way , in the second century BC , some cities of Asia Minor made coins ( e.g. , fig. 6 ) of a weight standard which was heavier than that in force in the kingdom of Asia ; it is no surprise that these coins all turn up in hoards outside Asia , mostly in northern Syria , where they were exported either as a political subsidy for the pretender Alexander Balas or as trade objects in exchange for goods , perhaps slaves . |
| 23 | ‘ I assume they were brought here in a spacecraft , ’ Rosheen continued . |
| 24 | The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well . |
| 25 | On the way they were strafed unsuccessfully by a Messerschmitt 110 . |
| 26 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |