Example sentences of "[pers pn] were simply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Caroline and I were simply arguing over an appropriate bedtime for you . ’ |
| 2 | You were simply given a lamp and told , ‘ Your beat starts here . |
| 3 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 4 | He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and |
| 5 | ‘ No , no , ’ it says , ‘ we were simply reprioritising . |
| 6 | It means we 're starting from a better baseline than if we were simply dealing with health services budget and social work 's budget and what the voluntary sector has managed to pull together . |
| 7 | I think that our description of what he was in effect saying , my Lord we were simply pointing out |
| 8 | Instead of being encouraged to develop into mature professionals with the ability to learn and think for themselves , we were simply required to regurgitate large amounts of information by rote . |
| 9 | If we were simply talking about a supplementary form of school report , with or without external validation , it might be possible to envisage GCSE results as simply one component of such a report . |
| 10 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 11 | We ourselves , it must be repeated , had no desire to assume the role of iconoclasts ; we were simply caught in the conflict between fact and faith . |
| 12 | Well I do n't think its quite er the level of aggression is quite up to that , I 'm sure that the market for legal services is now very much more competitive which is a healthy thing , and er if er if we were simply sitting on our hands from the nineteen eighties and not bothering to respond to that kind of challenge then I would be worried about it , but we 're not . |
| 13 | We were simply told , No . " |
| 14 | We were simply bred for physical qualities ( quoted in Kane , 1971 , p.79 ) . |
| 15 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 16 | In this they were simply reflecting the typical disinterest of historians . |
| 17 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |
| 18 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 19 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 20 | The Melanisms seemed to have retreated into their dark corners again , but Fenella had the feeling that they were simply mustering their strength again ; they had been baulked of their prey and they had retired . |
| 21 | From the cats ' point of view , they were simply fulfilling their need for exercise and their natural hunting instinct . |
| 22 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 23 | Leaders of opposition factions said that Mr Yeltsin 's easy ride meant they were simply holding their fire for a more opportune moment to challenge the government during the nine-day Congress . |
| 24 | Often they were simply meeting places where young mothers could chat and share problems . |
| 25 | Finally they relented when she argued that they were simply wasting their money . |
| 26 | They need not conceive of their practical programme as one of systematic cultural intervention : they were simply making transitional preparations for a reincarnation of the spirit of Poetry : |
| 27 | They were simply standing there on the beat in the execution of their duty when they were assaulted . ’ |
| 28 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 29 | By the twentieth century they were mainly in Tyrone , Armagh and Sligo but were still not classifiable as a breed : they were simply polled Irish cattle . |
| 30 | It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars . |