Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] were [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 2 | I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And we were ready for the clamour . ’ |
| 4 | I was kitted out with a one size too large pair of old EBs and we were ready for the re-education process . |
| 5 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 6 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 7 | A close friend who was gay — we were never quite lovers but we were inseparable for a while — went off with a woman and I was incredibly devastated by this . |