Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 2 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 3 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 4 | But it would be an even bigger surprise if Bulls were to slip up in their final game against Dunfermline Barr Electrics . |
| 5 | The massacre happened shortly before 9am , when the workmen were getting out of their red van . |
| 6 | She 'd point up in the air , where the Gnats were zipping around on their little gliders , like little pointed flower petals in the sky . |
| 7 | A few more officers were drifting in from their various weekends , and the chatter turned to the likelihood of their being called out on an ‘ Agile Blade ’ exercise in the next few days . |
| 8 | Greenshanks were flying over to their night-time roost in the park . |
| 9 | Ray and her sister were baptized Catholics , but after their mother 's elopement in 1891 with Bernhard Berenson , the art critic , they were brought up by their Quaker grandmother , Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith . |
| 10 | When his bones were brought out of their air-conditioned home for me to glimpse , I was astonished at their lightness and frailty . |
| 11 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 12 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 13 | In the meantime , the aunts and cousins were put up in their usual caravans . |
| 14 | The ceremony was 6,000 miles from where Gail and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Dina , 11 , were gunned down in their luxury home in San Diego , California . |
| 15 | All the Mendoza children were roused out of their pallid apathy . |