Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 2 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 3 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 4 | As soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them . |
| 5 | He 'd regretted the invitation as soon as the words were out of his mouth . |
| 6 | The moment the words were out of her mouth Leonora could have kicked herself . |
| 7 | The words were there inside Jezrael , programmed by the cold machines of the night before . |
| 8 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 9 | So you see the commercial aspects were still in there in those days as they are today . |
| 10 | In Gloucestershire break-ins were up by 30% , second only to Cheshire . |
| 11 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 12 | I thought they were lucky in their officials — executive leader Ali Bacher , ANC official Steve Tshwete , manager Alan Jordaan , and coach Mike Procter — and hoped they would enjoy to the full this honeymoon period of World Cup cricket in which their national fans were firmly behind them . |
| 13 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 15 | Her legs were still on his shoulders as she pulled his head down to lightly kiss his lips . |
| 16 | Her legs were out to the side like that |
| 17 | I ca n't describe it , she had , her legs were out to the side , but they were pointing down like that |
| 18 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 20 | Second best were the grammar schools , deemed to be a kind of honorary public schools ; secondary modern schools were not in the running . |
| 21 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |
| 22 | Local schools were again in evidence at the Central Region Youth Orchestra concert in the MacRobert in March , part of a series of concerts , drama and other events organised by them as part of the Jubilee . |
| 23 | For comprehensive schools were still in the late l950s regarded as experimental , and in any case suitable only for certain areas , such as rural parts of the country hitherto ill-served by grammar schools . |
| 24 | The line 's electrical department worked on the faults and the signals were back in use before the first train next day . |
| 25 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 26 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 27 | The remaining problem was that although all the physical activities of the Branch , except for the field work , were concentrated in one place at Farnborough , our offices were still with the Department of Trade in central London . |
| 28 | All the offices were still within the partnership and all the partners still had joint and several responsibility , but the bank said no . |
| 29 | New annual premiums were up from $51.6m to $57.2m and single premiums from $189.3m to $334.4m . |
| 30 | Syl 's mad little meannesses were not to be mentioned . |