Example sentences of "[verb] were [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I presume the 2 disallowed were nt in that figure ? |
| 2 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 3 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 4 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
| 5 | But she was an orphan , and the uncle and aunt with whom she lived were not at all well off . |
| 6 | The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions . |