Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 2 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 3 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 4 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 5 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 6 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 7 | You were lending them to this one here . |
| 8 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 9 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 10 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 11 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 12 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 13 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |
| 14 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 15 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 16 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) . |
| 18 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 19 | I ca n't quite imagine where they were getting them from . |
| 20 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 21 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 22 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 23 | They were selling them off cheap . |
| 24 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |