Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
| 2 | Abuse and scorn were heaped upon it with an intensity of attack that I can not remember experiencing previously in my political career . |
| 3 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 4 | Some cases , the easy ones , were solved by it like an intellectual puzzle . |
| 5 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 6 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 7 | Similarly in the Middle East the Americans , while valuing the British presence ( notably the base at Suez ) , were looking beyond it to a more comprehensive defence system . |
| 8 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
| 9 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 10 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 11 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 12 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 13 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 14 | Palmer 's views were shared by the other Northern Residents who , early in his career as Lieutenant-Governor , were organized by him into an effective pressure group known as the Conference of Residents . |
| 15 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 16 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |
| 17 | They were handed to him by a tiny nut-brown man in a red fez , who also sold little packets of sugared almonds and pistachios . |
| 18 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 19 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 20 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 21 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 22 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |
| 23 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 24 | Davis touched his forelock and then glanced towards the Oaks , as though conscious that George 's eyes were fixed on him with a disturbing intensity . |
| 25 | David 's eyes were fixed on her with an intensity she had n't seen before . |
| 26 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 27 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 28 | We were standing around him in a ragged semi-circle in the gym at the end of our physical education period . |
| 29 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 30 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |