Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So special that three months later they were engaged . |
| 2 | Remember that in Marks and Sparks a couple of months back they were selling borders off and I bought a beautiful aqua one . |
| 3 | Fourteen months ago we were told by all and sundry , particularly the media that it would be difficult , if not impossible , to recover from the despair and the destruction of the era and yet , here we sit today , with a Labour majority of sixteen , the biggest Labour majority since this Council was formed . |
| 4 | A couple of months ago they were pushing it through as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | A farmer is rearing over sixty of the animals in the Forest of Dean , where centuries ago they were killed off by hunters . |
| 6 | When our group raised the issues of travellers with one of the DHSS offices here we were told that everyone is allowed two weeks holidays every year . |
| 7 | Second , coordinators as a group were acutely conscious of the way their own success depended in large part upon how they and the practices they were promoting were regarded by existing staff in the schools where they were placed . |
| 8 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |
| 9 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 10 | These officials were responsible for the collection of revenue and the general administration of the districts where they were stationed . |
| 11 | Boolean logic introduces pupils to the combination of keywords using AND , OR and NOT — e.g. PARLIAMENT AND FINANCE OR LAWS — would retrieve references to books , articles etc. which were indexed under PARLIAMENT and FINANCE or PARLIAMENT and LAWS . |
| 12 | and what they took all the treasures down into the cellars so they were saved and they rebuilt it . |
| 13 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 14 | He had been ordered not to tell the Yugoslavs where they were going . |
| 15 | erm They have had periods when they were prosecuted , then they dropped out of fashion , now they have recently been revived over the last twenty years by prosecutors . |
| 16 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 17 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 18 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 19 | On the twentieth day after the wreck two of the men killed the boy for food ; four days later they were rescued . |
| 20 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 21 | A few weeks later they were taken away from Pushkin , away from St Petersburg and the European side of Russia where they had many supporters . |
| 22 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 23 | Two years later they were reconciled . |
| 24 | Three days ago they were trying to dodge a massacre in Bosnia , now despite half their families being slaughtered they seem happy to play in the mists of an Oxfordshire morning nearly two thousand miles from home . |
| 25 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 26 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 27 | Two weeks ago we were given hand brushes to dust the machines in front of us . |
| 28 | Mrs Caroline Ford , who has lived in Colston Avenue , Carshalton , one street away from the main line for 15 years , said : ‘ Until a few weeks ago we were shielded from the line by a long row of beautiful trees . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 30 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |