Example sentences of "they were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not allowed to play when Mum and Dad were in because they could n't stand the din , so I had to wait until they were down the pub to enjoy myself . |
| 2 | Instead they were down the road taking part in the pilot for a new Channel 4 indie pop programme , where their contribution to the proceedings was a ‘ spirited ’ rendition of the RIGHT SAID FRED hit ‘ Do n't Talk Just Kiss ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ They were down the side of the armchair in my room . |
| 4 | Amongst the major shares today , Abbey National up one at one nine nine , British Aerospace down twenty at five three four , British Airways down one at one five oh , British Gas down , down two at two one seven , British Steel were down two at one one six , B T down five at two five nine , Rolls Royce , they were down five at one seventy and T S B ends the day up , er that 's up two at one one eight . |
| 5 | They were about-to leave when Sir Richard called out : ‘ Brother Athelstan ! |
| 6 | They were below here you see . |
| 7 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 8 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |
| 9 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 10 | He could ask the magistrates to infer that the defendants were actually aware of the presence of bystanders , and that they were as a corollary aware that their conduct was disorderly . |
| 11 | They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living . |
| 12 | They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living . |
| 13 | They were about love and death , very basic things . |
| 14 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 15 | They were about ‘ closing the map ’ , creating a great continental empire which the Russians were to seek to emulate in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 16 | Why , while they were about it , was n't she trying to kill him ? |
| 17 | ‘ They were about the same ’ , she writes , ‘ as the principles used in painting — get to the point as directly as you can ; never use a big word if a little one will do ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ They were about the only way people could see and hear and know about things outside the scope of their own town . |
| 19 | Presumably they would have preferred the British people to be kept in the dark about the state of the royal marriage as they were about Edward 's love for Mrs Simpson . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I was called over so Zoff could put some questions to Paul , they were about training and that 's all I can say about it . ’ |
| 21 | The owners signalled how serious they were about halting the pay spiral last year when they first detached labour negotiations from the baseball commissioner , Fay Vincent , and then detached Mr Vincent from his job . |
| 22 | The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area . |
| 23 | The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area . |
| 24 | I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long . |
| 25 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 26 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 27 | I could see they were about my size . |
| 28 | Stark and Kellerman ran towards the house , keeping low , as anxious about Farrell 's erratic covering fire as they were about Donna 's possible retaliation . |
| 29 | Nine thousand years ago they were about as warm as today , though there was more ice present . |
| 30 | Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor . |