Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 2 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 3 | When each pairing had gone through 200 moves of the game , the winnings were totalled up and the winner declared . |
| 4 | In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed . |
| 5 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 6 | On this warm , sunny evening the sliding doors were pushed back and the scent of broom drifted in , along with the cooling freshness of a sprinkler turning merrily in the centre of the geranium-filled garden . |
| 7 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 8 | The film lights were turned on and the crowd briefed about their imminent deaths in the ruckled black velvet . |
| 9 | A Home Office pathologist was called and pupils at the school were turned back and the school closed after a caretaker found the body beside tennis courts at breakfast time . |
| 10 | The young men were turned out and the girls looked very pretty , some of them in microscopic skirts ! |
| 11 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 13 | Gradually , as the demobilisation began to take effect , the smaller satellite airfields were closed down and the surplus staff posted mainly to permanent stations . |
| 14 | Other and smaller breweries coming under Palatine control were closed down and the premises sold ( the proceeds helping to finance the redevelopment programmes ) . |
| 15 | The ministries of Industry , Trade and Services and of Agriculture were closed down and the two respective ministers , Ivan Pushkarov and Stanislav Dimitrov , left the Cabinet . |
| 16 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 17 | The police were alerted , marksmen were drafted in and the area sealed off . |
| 18 | Sails were hauled in and the ship started to slow down . |
| 19 | Never mind , the dates were going in and the last few weeks of the tour in the Eastern states were coming up . |
| 20 | when you were going out and the had stopped and all the girls had a you know , the ordinary paper bag with a got their shoes in there . |
| 21 | Early on the morning of March 4th , the remnants of the 33rd were mopped up and the fragmented stones that had once been Douaumont village fell to the Germans . |
| 22 | Both the top and bottom doors were flung back and the great war horse had apparently galloped away pursued by grooms . |
| 23 | Inside and on the dance floor , Pete and Diane suddenly found that people were drifting back and the music was getting loud again . |
| 24 | Over the weekend all attempts to salvage the Danish cargo vessel were called off and the ship was declared a total loss . |
| 25 | Within two years the liquidators were called in and the company was wound up in 1987 . |
| 26 | Troops were called out and the Riot Act was proclaimed in Worthing in 1884 . |
| 27 | ‘ I daresay he and Bill were larking about and the dog thought he 'd join in . ’ |
| 28 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 29 | Eighty of 400 dragoons were brought down and the rest fled . |
| 30 | Streetlight timers were cutting in and the lamps were glowing red as she pointed to a space and asked Carson to pull in . |