Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] were [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you were brought by a crane and not a stork ? ’ |
| 2 | Come , I 'll spell it out for you — one thing only you were born for , and that 's to live fourteen years and then bring Undry here and hang it from these chains . |
| 3 | Suddenly we were hit by reality . |
| 4 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
| 5 | Suddenly we were stopped in our tracks by the sight of a mighty torrent , swelled by heavy rain , thundering down the mountainside and into the foaming river below . |
| 6 | Suddenly we were disturbed by the roar of many small cannons being fired all at once outside the palace . |
| 7 | In order to buy the oil off us , they had to pay sterling and so hence the demand for sterling goes up and suddenly we were viewed as a very rich economy . |
| 8 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 9 | About five o'clock we were roused by the distant thudding of an engine . |
| 10 | When the hammer went down we were leapt with excitement . |
| 11 | Perhaps we were selected by some mysterious computer which recorded the fact that we have each served a 17-year sentence — mine on the Back Benches , his in the Cabinet . |
| 12 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 13 | So we were stood in the doorway . |
| 14 | At that time the general assembly did n't remove the remit from us and so we were emboldened by being allowed to continue erm to run some training conferences for ministers and others in the church who were involved in sharing this ministry of healing within the nation . |
| 15 | So we were sent to another hostel . |
| 16 | And so we were complimented by some of our colleagues on the shop floor you know , that , what a difference is on the place . |
| 17 | So we were faced with this very competitive market situation and as I say prices and we are really being squeezed on the price front and it was very difficult to get any form of increase in the er in the fees that we were being charged , that we were charging . |
| 18 | So we were caught like a lot of other people in not predicting just how fast and how far the land sales er prices would actually go down . |
| 19 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 20 | Inside we were greeted by the sight of a gaggle of top-heavy Sikhs energetically bopping around the hall to 1970s disco music ; beautiful Hindu ladies lilted delicately from side to side trying to avoid stepping on each other 's saris . |
| 21 | As we stepped through the portal , we left the late Mughal haveli behind and entered a very different world : inside we were confronted by a gleaming pink boudoir that could have been the dressing-room of a 1950s Hollywood film star . |
| 22 | Apparently they were used in restaurants , skating-rinks , and similar venues . |
| 23 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 24 | Perhaps they were disturbed by alarming reports from France , where the noble philosophical aims of Liberty , Equality and Fraternity were beginning to be taken a little too far . |
| 25 | Perhaps they were cloistered at home or in one of the wig shops . |
| 26 | Perhaps they were influenced by the ghoulish sets and sound effects , Christopher Lee 's cape and the ‘ blood capsules ’ they bought to disgust their pals . |
| 27 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 28 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 29 | At Pan Am , only the chairman and chief executive officer , Thomas G. Plaskett ; the senior vice president , legal , John Lindsey , and Gregory W. Buhler , deputy general counsel , were allowed to read it , and only they were advised of Shaughnessy 's decision to subpoena government records . |
| 30 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |