Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a few other animals were captured , no adults were successfully moved out of the danger area . |
| 2 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 3 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 4 | Despite a bright start , Liverpool were eventually shown up as a brittle , spiritless outfit whose heads dropped when the roll of the dice went against them . |
| 5 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 6 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 7 | Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy . |
| 8 | As ‘ real polises ’ we were correctly distributed in space and our bodies were properly turned out with the symbols of order . |
| 9 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 10 | We were most put out by the way they turned it down . ’ |
| 11 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 12 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 13 | Indeed , to the straight Grand Planners ( of which North was not one ) , hostages were better left out of the picture entirely . |
| 14 | Age-related classifications became more common ; older people were inexorably shaken out of the labour market and portrayed as an unproductive ‘ burden ’ on the rest of society ; and most important of all , the concept of mandatory retirement was institutionalized in the 1946 National Insurance Act . |
| 15 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 16 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 17 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 18 | These were swiftly put down by a detachment of the newly established Armed Police firing tear gas into the crowds . |
| 19 | There were times when we were only allowed out in the streets of Nicosia in groups of four . |
| 20 | Anyway , it was a good job we did because these erm these grouse and these chickens , I mean , they were so blended in with the the , the roadside you could hardly see them , and then they moved . |
| 21 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 22 | In spite of the growing success , there was still never any spare cash as profits were endlessly ploughed back in the unremitting quest for newer , more powerful machinery . |
| 23 | Specimens were gently spread out on a flat surface , flooded with 2.5% glutaraldehyde buffered in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate solution , and fixed for four to six hours . |
| 24 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 25 | For these cruel rituals the most wicked and depraved of ‘ Satan 's felines ’ were strongly preferred and all-black cats were eagerly sought out for the flames . |
| 26 | Before Edward 's reforms of 1289–91 , offices were normally farmed out to the highest bidder . |
| 27 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 28 | The capital asset value of the land was high and farms were normally passed down within the family . |
| 29 | Cov 's attacks were generally snuffed out with a solid offiside trap , and in the event of that not working , Fairclough being on hand to snuff out any breakthroughs . |
| 30 | The towns were generally laid out on the northern side of the tracks . |