Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 2 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 3 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 4 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 5 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 6 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 7 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 8 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 9 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 10 | Then I discovered you were with the chief , being ticked off , ’ he said mischievously . |
| 11 | I heard you were in the er |
| 12 | It was then that Brough discovered they were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 13 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 14 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 15 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 16 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you were in the Belt . ’ |
| 18 | I thought you were in the warehouse . |
| 19 | Thought you were in the West Country . " |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ I said , ‘ I thought you were in the Mafia , but it 's not much of a Mafia name . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 22 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 23 | Everyone knew we were from the prison , they stared at us . |
| 24 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 25 | I thought we were in the market for backs rather than midfielders ? |
| 26 | Bloody hell thought we were in the lead Derek , you sure you 're not going backwards ? |
| 27 | Theoretically , every person was subject to the whim of the sultan , which in practice meant they were at the mercy of his capricious subordinates . |
| 28 | Jenking said he thought they were on the Dean and that they would soon beat over it into deeper water . |
| 29 | Mm , I thought they were on the way here , I saw loads of for sale signs but I did n't see any new ones |
| 30 | And I get them er , I thought they were on the seat but they 're not . |