Example sentences of "[noun sg] they were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 2 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 3 | Anyway the next day they were on the er if machine is not clean when I come in then I should not run as I did not run this morning for four hours as I might as well come in on Saturday morning and clean them myself So she in . |
| 4 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 5 | They say when are you going to stop it , and I say , when am I going to stop it , when am I — it was the second night they were in the bar together after their week of absence I remember . |
| 6 | Erm they were at the start they were at the finish and both days in between . |
| 7 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 8 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |
| 9 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 10 | Cognito , the UK two-way paging service re-born after a management buyout last year , has got coverage and subscriber numbers back to around the level they were before the service 's first incarnation folded . |
| 11 | Almost to a man they were against the new phenomenon of the movies and they made no effort to include them in their ‘ night-time ’ world . |
| 12 | Before midday they were across the border into Luxembourg , surrounded by cliffs looming over the narrow serpentine road . |
| 13 | When they moved , every muscle ached but by midday they were in the fields again . |
| 14 | In ritual status they were at the very top of the system and ranked higher even than the kings . |
| 15 | By mid-afternoon they were on the lower slopes of Lustley Foin . |
| 16 | The titles of both episodes are also confused in the way they were on the Police Squad TV series . |
| 17 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 18 | These ‘ bent ’ Latin American bananas were being smuggled into Britain under the pretence they were from the Caribbean . |
| 19 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 20 | And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite . |
| 21 | The main force should have got into the town under the cover of a raid by the RAF , but by the time they were at the foot of the escarpment , this was almost over . |
| 22 | It was raining intermittently all the time they were in the cemetery , the pines bowing and shivering in the wind . |
| 23 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 24 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |
| 25 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |