Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 32 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 33 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 34 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 35 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 36 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 37 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 38 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 39 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 40 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 41 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 42 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 43 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 44 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 45 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 47 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 48 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 49 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 50 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 51 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 52 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 53 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 54 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 55 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 56 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 57 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 58 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 59 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 60 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |