Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |
| 2 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
| 3 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 4 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 5 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 6 | By the time they found out they were late . |
| 7 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 8 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 9 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 10 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 11 | My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of . |
| 12 | With the help of the European Commission Pilot Project : Community Languages in the Secondary Curriculum , we therefore conducted a second survey amongst a sample of LEA coordinators of community language provision in order to discover how they were attempting to meet locally perceived needs : thirteen replies were received . |
| 13 | He was concerned to discover how they were winning lucrative car parking contracts and whether there was a leak of information from his own company . |
| 14 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 15 | And the people on this side you do n't know how they were reacting as well . |
| 16 | Later the collision fenders were painted white to be seen in the blackout and sticky netting fixed to the window glass to prevent splintering ; there was a small diamond shaped hole in the centre , through which passengers were expected to discover where they were . |
| 17 | It took the English eleven days to discover where they were ; they planned an attack on the encampment , but were dissuaded and the only military action was a surprise move by the Earl of Douglas against the English camp . |
| 18 | Well they , they , they 'd do visiting like and as you say when they were sick and things like that . |
| 19 | Those competitors ’ meetings were just attended by a group of distressed individuals who wanted to know where they were going . ’ |
| 20 | Ruth hurried after him , her heart going in great jolts ; the rain came down bewilderingly , making it difficult to know where they were . |
| 21 | Victorine 's voice issued up from the garden below the windows , demanding to know where they were . |
| 22 | If they are witnesses to fact , you will need to know where they were when the accident occurred and how good their line of sight was . |
| 23 | I 'd like to know where they were . |
| 24 | A laboratory study " " using the old ( Loomis ) classification of sleep stages allowed subjects lying In bed and getting to sleep to indicate when they were " drifting " or " floating " by squeezing a bulb . |
| 25 | They did n't know where they were going to start . |
| 26 | When Vietnam and Watergate were over things simmered down in society and the urgency sort of fell out of film making ; the directors did n't quite know where they were , they had no targets . |
| 27 | After they have done this , tell them to return all the cards to the pack and to shuffle them together so that you can not possibly know where they were . |
| 28 | And then the daft things they were up to : ordering booksellers to destroy their maps , and ordinary folk an' all , as if the Germans when they landed would n't know where they were going . |
| 29 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 30 | And it got worse when I realised I did n't know where they were going for their lune de miel . |