Example sentences of "[pers pn] were beyond " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we were beyond friendship . |
| 2 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 3 | Like the Seer whose visions are always ideal and beyond human senses , his buildings were his poems and they were beyond human scale and to build them would be to defile them . |
| 4 | Jack looked at the glasses ; they were beyond repair . |
| 5 | As newspaper costs escalated and as the nature of the commodity changed politicians and political parties saw their financial grip over newspapers being prised open ; by the late 19th century , newspapers had become such costly ventures that they were beyond the reach of politicians . |
| 6 | They were beyond planetary atmosphere now ; the vision shields had slid down . |
| 7 | Had they known how rare such a commodity was in a woman 's college at that date , they might have been even more astonished , but in a sense , looking round Flora 's room , with its bright scatter cushions and Picasso prints and posters for plays at the ADC , with its invitations on the mantelpiece , with its gas fire and clutter of old shoes , with its romantic piles of what looked like lecture notes and essays , with its candle in a pewter stick and its wilting rose in a vase , they were beyond astonishment . |
| 8 | Other INSET initiatives , particularly school-led INSET and management training , were being developed towards the end of the evaluation period but they were beyond the reach of PRINDEP 's time and resources . |
| 9 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 10 | Going around the Sections posts could take a fortnight , for many of them were beyond the ‘ 60-mile line ’ . |
| 11 | This seems … ’ he shrugged , as if it were beyond words to say . |