Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 2 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 3 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 4 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 5 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 6 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 7 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |