Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floorboards , the great sweeping staircase , its balustrade and newels , were fashioned out of the most expensive materials . |
| 2 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 3 | When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity . |
| 4 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 5 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 6 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 7 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 8 | A few people sat there also , talking , and some again were sitting around in the long lower lounge to the rear . |
| 9 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |