Example sentences of "were [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start .
2 Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker .
3 Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail .
4 ‘ They were doing everything by the book .
5 I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester .
6 The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other .
7 Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts .
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