Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school . |
| 2 | After their first year of service they were normally on active duty for only two months in each year . |
| 3 | Hampered by their lack of English , traumatised by events in Germany and Austria and , in most cases , with very limited resources , they were invariably in need of care themselves . |
| 4 | She peered out the window , but they were already past it . |
| 5 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 6 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 7 | By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically . |
| 8 | I understood in Committee that they were already at work . |
| 9 | They were already under stress , thanks to the aftershock of last year 's drought and a drop in the price of tobacco , the country 's chief export . |
| 10 | Because they were already in successful careers they were able to learn fast and by the second week our Gofer teams were veteran roadies . |
| 11 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 12 | They were already in the sala , having a pre-dinner drink , when Maggie walked in , and she knew that at least one pair of dark eyes watched her sardonically . |
| 13 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 14 | They were instead to be guardians of the interests of the commoners and of local interests generally , but they were to have no greater powers than any other members of the Committee . |
| 15 | By now they were upstairs in the front bedroom , and Gloria was pouring hot water into the washbasin , preparing the shampoo . |
| 16 | They were upstairs in Edgar Lloyd , Hatters , when Ben heard voices down below . |
| 17 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | They were nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 20 | They were nowhere in sight as I went through to the dining car , and Filmer seemed to have gone straight to his room , as there was a thread of light shining along the bottom of his door ; but Daffodil , I discovered , had after all not . |
| 21 | Mitchum had arrived on the set for an early call and found they were nowhere near ready for him . |
| 22 | And they were nowhere near London . |
| 23 | They were nearly into the spa town , and were waiting while a trolley-bus took right of way , when she saw no reason not to ask what seemed to her a perfectly natural question . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know ! ’ she exclaimed exasperatedly , anxiety suddenly getting to her as she all at once recognised that they were nearly at her hotel — and she had nothing fixed about the interview yet ! |
| 25 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 26 | ‘ They were here for well over two months . |
| 27 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 28 | Villagers attending the annual parish meeting last week made it clear they were heavily against such a proposal . |
| 29 | They were previously in the collection of the artist and his wife and many have the archive stamp of that collection on the reverse . |
| 30 | There is published evidence that P cepacia is transmissible , directly or indirectly , between individuals , and that in a proportion who acquire it the infection is associated with rapid deterioration or death , even when they were previously in good health and clinically stable . |