Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Er when the election , local elections were on of course , er er er i we were n not quite so friendly to each other , because er each had got candidates er contesting for the er for the same er for the one er particular seat . |
| 2 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 3 | Last year branch income was on target at seven point eight million pounds , a massive increase on the plateau of five to five and half million pounds we were on before Skip Lunch . |
| 4 | At the far end of the room , marooned on a dais in splendid isolation , sat those fellows of the college who were in for lunch that day . |
| 5 | With break for We 'd start we 'd do the cattle feed the cattle in the morning and then we were in for breakfast and then er be out then and er dinner then was usually about half past twelve and you started again on at two . |
| 6 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 7 | In general , children stay in the same percentile band they were in at birth . |
| 8 | One or two were down at heel , eroded by the tides of later nineteenth century London life . |
| 9 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 10 | All the senior police officers were down with flu — so the Chief Constable asked for his aid . |
| 11 | By 1955 export prices were down to world levels , a development which must have accelerated the scrapping of old plant . |
| 12 | But many of his inventions were down to earth , as witness the Franklin stove which was a real energy saver , and provided comfort to the whole room , an early example of the ‘ Save It ’ campaign . |
| 13 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 14 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 15 | ‘ Time we were off to bed . ’ |
| 16 | Then he applied the lash to the horse 's flank , and we were off at speed . |
| 17 | Within months both president and the other vice president were off on study tours . |
| 18 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 19 | But they could n't do that because only one third of the councillors were up for election . |
| 20 | The PRD now held only 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies ; of its former four Senate seats , it lost both those which were up for election . |
| 21 | In the Legislative Council ( the upper house of the state legislature ) one half of the 22 seats were up for election . |
| 22 | No surprises were anticipated from the meeting , at which all directors were up for re-election . |
| 23 | Rovers applied for a Pontins League place along with Stockport County , while Preston and Wigan were up for reelection . |
| 24 | Shares in the Sheffield Development Corporation were up for sale . |
| 25 | In the latter part of Sir Kit 's reign , which ended in early 1991 , half the bank 's assets were up for sale , including its European businesses , Thomas Cook , the travel chain , Forward Trust , and even the Midland 's headquarters in Poultry . |
| 26 | The first of Jonathon 's wooden ships were up for sale at ten guineas each ; Jonathon was earning his keep and so was Melanie , in the shop on her feet all day . |
| 27 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 28 | There was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up and this was reflected by the fact that so many local hotels were up for sale . |
| 29 | Just before Christmas , when they were up for interview from their respective schools . |
| 30 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |