Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 2 | Leonora doubted that biscuits were much of a cure for what ailed her , but she bit into one meekly , deciding that the best policy was to fall in with Penry Vaughan 's wishes whenever possible , to keep the peace . |
| 3 | We were only about a yard from the fairway , but we had trouble finding the ball . |
| 4 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 5 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 6 | Six died he were , he were only in a week |
| 7 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 8 | But the family were together for a tour of Harry 's dormitory , where the new boy — known at Ludgrove as a ‘ squit ’ — will sleep with three pals . |
| 9 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |
| 10 | The trio were together for a Christmas in Vienna concert in the city hall . |
| 11 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 12 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 13 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 14 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 15 | They were just of a height . |
| 16 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 17 | So that it would if it were were just like a trough . |
| 18 | Maskill improved the try and Leeds were home with a comfort which flattered them . |
| 19 | But they were usually in a minority . |
| 20 | James Knights told me that he and his mate were once in a fight with two Burton men , and his mate — a Halesworth man — died in his lodgings two days later . |
| 21 | We were once in a dug-out , I recollect : there were only owd bits o' wood on the top of it . |
| 22 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 23 | If the Liberal-SDP Alliance were ever in a position to implement electoral reform , a reformed and strengthened second chamber , and legal limits on the sovereignty of Parliament , then we could find ourselves with a constitution which entrenched the middle ground and which offered a democracy of dazzling choice but no decision , and a less-accountable government than that which we currently enjoy within the established constitution . |
| 24 | A large number of those jobs would be destroyed if the Labour party were ever in a position to put its policies into practice . |
| 25 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 26 | It is also true to say that if the Opposition parties were ever in a position to put their policies into effect , that self-employment record would inevitably be gravely harmed and the cause of women in particular would suffer much more . |
| 27 | I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law . |
| 28 | The elections were apparently to decide the membership of 26 district councils , but in fact they were more like a refererendum , with multiple choices , on the province 's future . |
| 29 | But if a writer were more like a reader , he 'd be a reader , not a writer : it 's as uncomplicated as that . |
| 30 | At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek . |