Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you were given the responsibility then to train people up ? |
| 2 | That was the day you was taken into hospital and she was in the bed , cos they were on their way down so we were changing the bloody beds ! |
| 3 | Suddenly they were wearing the colours of the rainbow . |
| 4 | Suddenly they were playing the game . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps they were looking the other way . ’ |
| 6 | Together they were to form the essential background to the most important British variant of fascism . |
| 7 | And tonight we were defying the midges on a remaining fragment of the once extensive heathland . |
| 8 | There were hairpin bends and soon we were lipping the edge of a two-thousand-foot drop , the river below occasionally glimpsed through ragged wind-torn holes in the cloud . |
| 9 | Soon they were kicking the bar with their toes , their noses buried in cold beer . |
| 10 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 11 | Once more we were spared the fate of drawing a wrong conclusion thanks to a single coin of Valens dated to AD 375 . |
| 12 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 13 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 14 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 15 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 16 | Time was passing and now we were approaching the reservoirs , Fernilee and Err wood . |
| 17 | Now they were feeling the need to order quite a large amount of food for ‘ skinnys ’ , especially ones whom possessed at some point in time the ‘ narrow cup ’ . |
| 18 | Now they were offered the chance to nominate a Governor ; this they declined , understandably in view of what had happened . |
| 19 | She had soon seen the potential of his drab and neglected establishment , and now they were married the business was doing very well . |
| 20 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 21 | Only a few weeks ago we were trotting the globe with Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World and Volker Schlöndorff 's Voyager , or rolling along transcontinental rails with Lars Von Trier 's Europa . |
| 22 | Today we were reaping the benefit . |
| 23 | Even they were finding the going hard ; other users had given up , and formed temporary alternative paths in the adjacent fields . |
| 24 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 25 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe you were dreaming the wrong dreams for you . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're probably jealous too because you got the job through your dad , and then you were offered the foreman 's job . ’ |
| 28 | Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent . |
| 29 | Then we were shown the locker room , which had a section for each class . |
| 30 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |