Example sentences of "they were [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 2 | Rather , they were with the events of August 1968 and , in particular , with the self-immolation of the young philosophy student , Jan Palach , in January 1969 . |
| 3 | They were on the ramparts with you during the battle . |
| 4 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 5 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 6 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 7 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 8 | Then they were amongst the conifers near the road , a smell of resin and dead bracken , twigs catching their legs . |
| 9 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 10 | They were in the trenches by Christmas 1915 and eventually , from July 1916 , in the carnage of the Somme . |
| 11 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 12 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 13 | They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts . |
| 14 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 15 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |