Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 2 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 3 | We were just locked up all the time , with half an hour exercise a day and no books to read . |
| 4 | Some of the tapes were already packaged up ready to be sent out . |
| 5 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 6 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 7 | Me and Jo were well split up last night ! |
| 8 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 9 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 10 | Around the château itself were neatly laid out formal gardens with mature trees , age-old fountains and sweet smelling bushes as well as a neglected , sunken , walled garden . |