Example sentences of "were [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but usually you were off school right from the person died to the to after the funeral . |
| 2 | I keep thinking it 's were off school yesterday . |
| 3 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 4 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 5 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The Druids were for Posidonius more important than the other two groups because they provided leadership , moral and religious ideas , and justice . |
| 7 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 8 | It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only . |
| 9 | ft. ) and slightly more than one acre of land were for sale very cheaply at £ 1,200 . |
| 10 | Other hallowed encounters which I enjoyed , such as London Irish v Bedford , were for diversion merely . |
| 11 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 12 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 13 | Many of the slides were of boxes now demolished . |
| 14 | Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through . |
| 15 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 16 | This dissociation also appears if the data are split on the basis of mean risk ratings ( which were of course strongly related to ratings for number of moving objects — r(46)=0.47 , p<0.01 across studies and r(46)=0.65 , p<0.01 within the rating scales study ) . |
| 17 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 18 | Gifts of a modest size were of course perfectly tolerable . |
| 19 | Bienvida and Jasper were of course still there . |
| 20 | The economic advantages of a large family or an interlocking connection of families were of course still substantial . |
| 21 | Ideas of salvation and conversion were of course inextricably linked in Rose of Lima 's culture ; and this clear , driving sense of purpose in her life must not be underestimated if she is to reveal anything to us in a historical sense . |
| 22 | Street kids — and their elders , the Liverpool ‘ bucks ’ — were of course inevitably guilty of whatever charge the patrolling constable thought appropriate . |
| 23 | We were of course much hampered by the lack of weather reports to the west of us , as most of our weather comes from the west and Eire , being neutral in the war , did n't supply us with any reports . |
| 24 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 25 | Monteverdi 's Vespers were of course quite exceptional , yet common Venetian and North Italian practices were better adapted to the expression of human emotion than of transcendental faith . |
| 26 | You were of course entirely right . ’ |
| 27 | The kind of practical tasks they carried out for the sufferer were of course very variable . |
| 28 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 29 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 30 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |