Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other old shipmates like Phil Andrews , Eddie Clarke and Ron Giles were still crewing but others like Des Ferret , Vic Roberts and Bob Wellock were disappearing up the promotion ladder . |
| 2 | In the New World , there was movement of crops between Mexico and coastal Peru by 1000BC and , a few hundred years later , the people of southern Arabia were trading down the coast of East Africa . |
| 3 | If Berowne were murdered then the killing was premeditated . |
| 4 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 5 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |
| 6 | If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle . |
| 7 | Up to 60 staff at S and S Press in Abingdon were told yesterday the company was going out of business and their services were no longer required . |