Example sentences of "were [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | Shouts and curses echoed across the vault , and then they were hurling themselves down the steps . |
| 3 | He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly , concealing his fear as best he could ; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren . |
| 4 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 5 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 6 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 7 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 10 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 11 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 12 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 13 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 14 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 15 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 16 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |