Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fund accounting is a practice we were introduced to in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 3 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 5 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 6 | Two or three 'phone calls later and it was all arranged — Jane I were to go to Skomer . |
| 7 | Who was the lady you were talking to who you knew ? |
| 8 | Of course , in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war , we had tea in the afternoon of course , and er when we got there it was dinner at night , with you know , meat and vegetables every night , that sort of thing , so it was quite a surprise . |
| 9 | Without oxygen we were limited to 10,000 feet , but the published ceiling is FL360 at max weight , increasing well into the forties as fuel is burned . |
| 10 | ‘ He said he knew the part of Tuscany we were going to extremely well and all the priests were Communists . |
| 11 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 12 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 13 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 14 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you tell Connie you were going to be a kennel-maid ? ’ she asked . |
| 17 | Th the decision you were putting to us though Trevor , was whether we put somebody on extra duty payment ? |
| 18 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 19 | If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence . |
| 20 | ‘ It is up to us to bring the levels of professionalism we were used to into this club . ’ |
| 21 | From that moment we were dedicated to film . |
| 22 | But on the Friday Evening we were treated to another dinner , this one so splendid that it was designated a ‘ banquet ’ , and was held at the Peking Duck Restaurant , an eating place of great fame , specialising , like Mrs Hogg , in duck . |
| 23 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 24 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 25 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 26 | Within weeks they were sent to Australia , where they suffered many privations . |
| 27 | In Campbell and Palmer v Crest Homes ( Wessex ) Ltd ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 November , the plaintiff vendors agreed to sell some development land to the defendant purchasers at the price the property might reasonably be expected to fetch on the open market at the relevant date on a sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser ; if the parties failed to agree the price within four weeks they were to refer to an independent surveyor to determine the price . |
| 28 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 29 | At filling stations they were banished to the far-flung corners of the forecourt , away from the well-lit protection of covered petrol pumps , to battle 32-tonners for a turn at the diesel pump . |
| 30 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |