Example sentences of "[pron] were [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a traditional picture of the genesis of BT whose main lines depend , substantially , not on any direct evidence , but on the later recollections of Nietzsche 's sister , which were first set out in one volume of a biography of her brother published in 1897 . |
| 2 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 3 | The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn . |
| 4 | Finding a new childcarer is so traumatic that 80% of the mothers surveyed admitted they did n't have the courage to give an inadequate nanny the sack immediately ; 60% of those who were unhappy carried on with their carer for a month , and 35% for up to six months . |
| 5 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 6 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
| 7 | There were girls who were prepared to put up with fat . |
| 8 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 9 | He genuinely like women , and he liked people who were prepared to stand up for themselves . |
| 10 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 11 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |
| 12 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 13 | ‘ When I first met you , in that bar , you were all cut out round the edges , like something out of a cereal packet that does n't stand up when you 've made it . ’ |
| 14 | I thought you were anxious to get out of here . ’ |
| 15 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 16 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 17 | We could even get you both on , as if you were both tuned in by chance . |
| 18 | Thoughtfully Adam said , ‘ It was , perhaps , a pity that you were unable to stay on with your friend Mrs Higby . ’ |
| 19 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 20 | We were due to go out at 2000 hours . |
| 21 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 22 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 23 | We were all pressed back into our seats . |
| 24 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 25 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 26 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 27 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 28 | ‘ Rehearsal ceased , we were all bussed back to our schools and the music festival was cancelled for 1952 . ’ |
| 29 | But we were all kitted out in life jackets . |
| 30 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |