Example sentences of "[coord] they were [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Seer whose visions are always ideal and beyond human senses , his buildings were his poems and they were beyond human scale and to build them would be to defile them . |
| 2 | I mean they , and they were in good areas . |
| 3 | When he left the vehicle on the Saturday evening , all four wheels were off , and they were in that state when he returned to the job on the Sunday morning . |
| 4 | And they were in traditional mission stations were they ? |
| 5 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 6 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 7 | A last volley from the men defending the wall , and they were in full retreat , pell-mell across the stone-paved terrace in front of the house . |
| 8 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 9 | Their wounds had healed and they were in full flesh again , frisking by the riverbank when they were disembarked to graze . |
| 10 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 11 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 12 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 13 | But they were at one minute 's notice to move . |
| 14 | But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men . |
| 15 | About seven of them , but they were in different places . |
| 16 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |