Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moss Green was a custom-built community school , with a commitment to multicultural education and a staff who were used to implementing innovations such as open-plan classrooms , and , more recently , an alternative curriculum for fourth and fifth years . |
| 2 | Granted that senior army officers , like Sir William , were used to handling men and making decisions , they still could n't be expected to understand what was involved in a tricky investigation , be able to discuss tactics . |
| 3 | The recruitment managers were used to handling all sorts . |
| 4 | They were used to obeying orders . |
| 5 | This way of putting it at least has the merit of correctly suggesting that Heisenberg 's procedure was closer to the way in which people were used to thinking about dynamics . |
| 6 | ft was strange then , all these things were happening , and the thing was , sometimes you did n't hear about them until much later , even if it was someone you were used to seeing all the time . |
| 7 | They were used to seeing 3 × 80 oz. bottles put in with too much colour and a ‘ hope for the best ’ attitude . |
| 8 | ‘ People in Middlesbrough were used to seeing me walking around . |
| 9 | They were used to taking the young seriously , and they were right , I see now : everyone has to begin somewhere . |
| 10 | The Jews were used to listening to parables as this method of teaching was well established in their culture . |
| 11 | However , these readers were students of English , which means that they were used to reading texts for tutorials that they might not have chosen to read on their own . |
| 12 | By the summer of 1916 the Unionist backbenchers were used to voting against the government . |
| 13 | The Latinos were used to flying their drug cargoes and knew that there was always the risk of someone , if only by accident , being on or near the airstrip . |
| 14 | They were used to meeting nomes who spoke other languages . |
| 15 | Charles 's courtiers were used to dealing with a bachelor of fixed habits and a set routine . |
| 16 | And I did n't want to bother with a doctor — in Baldersdale you were used to dealing with minor complaints on your own . |
| 17 | All the men on Lewis were fishermen and the women were used to coping without them . |
| 18 | Nick and Carrie were used to timing them now , fairly accurately : they went out for about half an hour and when they came back be was sitting quiet in the kitchen , reading the paper . |
| 19 | Frederick was exceedingly persistent in his efforts to subdue the Lombard cities ; and cooperation came unnaturally to them ; they were used to fighting among themselves , so that some even then allied themselves with the emperor . |
| 20 | They were used to rubbing shoulders with Tatars in regions west of the Urals , and seem to have had few trances of the sense of racial superiority which other European colonists took with them . |
| 21 | If you were close to the patient before his stroke , and were used to showing him affection by touching and kissing him , and if you still feel the same warmth for him despite his illness , you can help his morale greatly by continuing to behave as before , even if he seems not to respond . |
| 22 | ( Some were used to having freezers and food storage facilities as well as cookers on the wing and this restriction on individual choice , in a system where it is precious , hit hard . ) |
| 23 | I 'm us I were used to selling things . . |
| 24 | They were used to working in the dark ; they had become a secret society . |
| 25 | He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back . |
| 26 | And he saw , too , narrowing eyes that were used to singling out detail at great distance , the betraying glitter of sunlight upon arms , below him in the copses of the valley . |
| 27 | Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums . |
| 28 | We sat in the Club drinking iced drinks and listening to talk of England , we went to dinner with various people — the Wentworths , the James ' , the Winters — we did all the things that we were used to doing . |
| 29 | Banging the table , he shouted ‘ order ’ , and continuing in English — to the amazement of members — he said he came from a noble family in Normandy and in Normandy , they were used to doing things in an orderly way . |
| 30 | and , and that 's not happened and , and he explained that that 's what he was us that 's what you were used to doing |