Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
2 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
3 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
4 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
5 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
6 | They were selling them off cheap . |
7 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
8 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
9 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
10 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
11 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
12 | yes but you were , forgive me Lord you were asking him about deliberate er deceit or there would n't be any point in deliberately , get the exact word , misleading the prospective purchaser |
13 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
14 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
15 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
16 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
17 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
18 | Hundreds of rats were watching him with bright , anxious little eyes . |
19 | There was no readable expression on her face , but Marjorie felt an unease as she looked at her , as though the woman were watching her through narrowed lids . |
20 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |