Example sentences of "[adv] they were [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they were all to be anonymous . |
| 2 | Yeah well they were supposed to be in flat and then when they 're cut it out you supposed , their supposed to turn it over |
| 3 | Maybe they were anxious to be at the School of English , maybe at the place next door to it . |
| 4 | There they were able to be independent of the Iranian state authorities — a tradition that has continued since . |
| 5 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 6 | Others had scrambled across the field , dodging shellbursts , and had taken off only to forget where they were supposed to be going . |