Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 2 | This is borne out by a ) the incredible amount of time and energy being put in at the WFS conference to the forthcoming Chesterfield Socialist conference and bI the constant egotistical/individualistic remarks made by conference participants , who had no interest whatsoever in building support for women 's struggle , ( and in many cases continued unchallenged with these views ) 2 ) That the conference had very few Black women in attendance , we saw around 12 out of the many hundreds ( although we were over represented in the creche and began to wonder whether this was the ’ Black women only ’ space created for us ) . |
| 3 | They also had to be decorated with braid and ribbons even when they were out ploughing in the winter ; George Sadler told me : |
| 4 | When Lindsey and Stevie joined the band you were out touring on the circuit before the big-selling albums happened . |
| 5 | The rabbits were out feeding in the fields . |
| 6 | She and her father were out walking on the day he died . |
| 7 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 8 | When the men were out working in the field , I was left in the yard erm I helped with feeding the milking the cows , feeding the calves and the pigs . |
| 9 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 10 | When they were about to leave for the restaurant , a man standing near the bar came up to Kevin and said , ‘ If ye 're wanting a place here , the Half House is on the market . ’ |
| 11 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 12 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 13 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 14 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 15 | He had been dreaming that he and his friend Aidan Lynch were on Death Row in some American prison and they were about to die in the electric chair . |
| 16 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 17 | Reggane was on the route from Oran , and we were about to transfer to the route from Algiers , along a one hundred and eighty mile dog-leg . |
| 18 | Just as we were about to paddle along the once road we heard a shout from Matthew 's mum for us to go and collect her . |
| 19 | In the bottom of the pit there is a corresponding calm — it is the still centre of the spiral — and an odd sense of hollowness , as if you were about to drop into the deeps of the earth 's psyche ( and of your own ) like a stone down a mineshaft . |
| 20 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |
| 21 | Benjamin gripped my wrist and nodded but , just as we were about to step into the boat , he clapped his hands together . |