Example sentences of "[coord] they were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 2 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 3 | Another five minutes and they were at the edge of the meadow . |
| 4 | Barely pause and they were at the foot of a steep corner crack . |
| 5 | But the , I mean I came home and they were under the hedge they were n't going through but there 's a big piece of netting has come down and it needs erm stitching up and then it needs sewing , not sewing erm |
| 6 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 7 | They were called ‘ Fifth Amendment Communists ’ and they were on the ‘ Black List ’ which , officially , never existed . |
| 8 | It was lunchtime and they were on the river . |
| 9 | And they were on the dock . |
| 10 | A hurried tea and they were on the move again . |
| 11 | I never went no further than you are now , all I come for was my little secateurs , and they were on the shelf here inside the door . |
| 12 | Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster . |
| 13 | The first two were traffic cops and they were on the street cruising for the house number , no sirens out of deference to the ratepayers , within five minutes . |
| 14 | No she 's only staying tonight and they think , they just phoned me up then and they were on the square , I think she 's going home phorr what 's that smell , it stinks what ? |
| 15 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 16 | And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known . |
| 17 | And they were in the audience . |
| 18 | We thought it was probably a Jap plane , and they were in the habit of swooping down and machine-gunning anybody , so , although it was a boiling hot day , I said to you children , ‘ Let's play a game of tag round that heap of stones , ’ thinking that at least we would not all get hit . |
| 19 | He had brought Harbury with him and they were in the shade of the planes when she drove into the square . |
| 20 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |
| 21 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |
| 22 | I think one time there were some folk up from Lyness they cleared out and they were in the tunnel and of course they blasted . |
| 23 | And they were in the car going up . |
| 24 | And they were in the front room going wild ! |
| 25 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 26 | Other INSET initiatives , particularly school-led INSET and management training , were being developed towards the end of the evaluation period but they were beyond the reach of PRINDEP 's time and resources . |
| 27 | But they were at the end of their shift . |
| 28 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 29 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 30 | There was no dog in the road but they were among the little cluster of grey and brown stone houses near the church where Wycliffe had had his memorable conversation with Emily Pascoe . |