Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show . |
| 2 | At a stroke , family ties were disrupted : children found themselves , at an appallingly early age , having to stand on their own two feet in a strange and often hostile environment ; parents were suddenly deprived of their offspring . |
| 3 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 4 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
| 5 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 6 | Circular temples were also built of which the Pantheon is the best known representative ( 122–124 ) . |
| 7 | Oh no , I the mine , the mines in Germany at that time were far advanced of what er Britain 's mines were . |
| 8 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 9 | ‘ Most people in Wickrithe would say we were well rid of him , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Proper b blacked up proper they were well thought of you know . |
| 11 | The programme showed really well how serious the crime levels were becoming , when a man explained that houses were completely stripped of anything of any value by adults and children alike , to sell as scrap . |
| 12 | Seventy nine per cent were completely cured of their symptoms . |
| 13 | Accordingly , thousands of Czechoslovaks who had fled the country after the 1968 clampdown and were subsequently stripped of their citizenship would be able to regain it . |