Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go to look for where they were born and bred . |
| 2 | Soon , however , they found themselves in a nightmare situation for although they were walking towards the train they seemed to get no nearer to it . |
| 3 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 4 | Take the T V away and conversation collapses and dies and in a survey a former German couple , they took away lots of and they were nearly suicidal and they were nearly murdering |
| 5 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 6 | Not the sort of offspring you 'd be proud of if you were in politics , or some other branch of the upper social orders . |
| 7 | If required , the activities could be prioritised on the basis of whether they were primary , secondary , support or control activities , providing the basis for the evaluation of any proposed systems . |
| 8 | The library of the future would be able to handle all types of electronic media , with users blissfully unaware of whether they were watching , say , a laser disc or a video tape . |
| 9 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 10 | If mail order is excluded , much the same proportions of people patronised the various types of shopping centre , and types of shop , for their most recent non-routine purchase , regardless of whether they were buying on credit or buying for cash . |
| 11 | In an attempt to bolster the reliability of NVOCC bills , the 1984 Shipping Act required NVOCC 's to file tariffs with the Federal Maritime Commission ( ’ FMC ’ ) , regardless of whether they were domestic or foreign-based . |
| 12 | Patients in the fluticasone propionate group received 5 mg four times daily throughout the trial , regardless of whether they were allocated to group A or group B at 14 days . |
| 13 | In addition , it can be exercised where , during antecedent negotiations , there were oral representations made irrespective of whether they were concluded on or off business premises ( s67 ) . |
| 14 | We do n't get the impression erm of whether you were airborne at that stage . |
| 15 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 16 | I do n't why , should of when you were young . |
| 17 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 18 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 19 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on , Francis , what about if you were forty some and straight and never kissed a man before ? |
| 21 | ‘ Clive , what about if I were to … ’ |
| 22 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 23 | It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not , while behaving as if we were . |
| 24 | It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place . |
| 25 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 26 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 27 | as if we were saying : Sod you , I do n't care . |
| 28 | Matata shook his head again , as if we were fools . |
| 29 | For example , many soap operas omit older people entirely , as if we were all perpetually middle-aged ! |
| 30 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |