Example sentences of "were [adv] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 2 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 3 | Bags that were n't that have come over there and need a recount Kerry ! |
| 4 | And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what |
| 5 | cut the meat up while they were there and put it in the machine , and that happened and all this that and the other . |
| 6 | ‘ I would go round to his flat in Clapham when his wife 's parents were there and say : ‘ I 've got the horse shit . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes I was , but we were never that close . |