Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slate we wanted to produce we want , you know if there a lot a bit of waste going over the tip , we were n't so much worried bout the waste , cos we was on the bonus we were making the slates and that . |
| 2 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |
| 3 | By increasing the amount of deuterium they were raising the chance that two deuterons fused together . |
| 4 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |
| 5 | But as Zen pointed out , at least in Perugia you were spared the relentless commercialization of the pilgrim city , the three-dimensional postcards of a glamorous St Francis preaching to an audience of stuffed animals , the bottles of ‘ Monk 's Delight ’ liqueur , the ceramic prayer texts suitable for mounting over the toilet , the little figurines of lovable monks with round bellies and mischievous smiles . |
| 6 | ‘ On Friday evening you were passing the Rectory at a quarter to twelve midnight by the chime of the church clock . |
| 7 | Conversely , eating the person 's body might indicate the ultimate contempt , in that you were degrading them completely : as you ate parts of the body you were mocking the person 's erstwhile vigour and simultaneously stealing it for your own use . |
| 8 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 9 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 10 | The caller gave the name of a football team and Ubaldo had to reply with the name of the team they were playing the following Sunday . |
| 11 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 12 | You see , it was n't that they had no faith , they had faith we were saying the other week when we were dealing with this , we all have faith it 's what we do with it . |
| 13 | ‘ You heard those noises on the night you were robbing the jeweller 's , ’ continued Rohmer . |
| 14 | As volunteers for the day we were accorded the same privilege . |
| 15 | On another occasion we were meeting the Prime Minister 's plane at Cardiff Airport , with only two Gofers in the team that day . |
| 16 | Had a laugh last night we were laying the carpet and I was laying it , I cut it off see where it is you ca n't fit , ca n't fit it under the doorsteps |
| 17 | At dinner that night we were discussing the whole affair and I said : " Oh well , you ca n't make an omelette without breaking some eggs , " which led to the classic retort from Ed Prior , my engineer : " Yes , but you did n't have to break the whisk ! " |
| 18 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 19 | A BT letter told customers they were getting the system free for a three-month trial . |
| 20 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 21 | But last week they were told the trial would again be delayed , possibly as late as May next year . |
| 22 | If it was a bonny day you worked on till sometimes three in the morning they were doing the . |
| 23 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 24 | During the course they were given the facilities of the officers mess where they were fed and housed . |
| 25 | Through hard experience they were learning the price of government and the cost of leadership . |
| 26 | Originally , by taking the maypole they were transferring the luck , bestowed by the tree spirit and which went with the pole , to their own village . |
| 27 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 28 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 29 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 30 | Of Manner In They did the job in the way they were told the clause in the way they were told qualifies did . |