Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 32 | We were lucky to get out of Stalingrad . |
| 33 | There were no set hours , no union to look after their interests and they were lucky to get out on a Saturday or Sunday to go to the chapel , or on certain special occasions to the cinema . |
| 34 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 35 | And , in my opinion , Chris Waddle the current darling of the sports writers is equally capable of failing to deliver as the tabloids were quick to point out during his lengthy England career . |
| 36 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 37 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 38 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 39 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 40 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 41 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 42 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
| 43 | What they did n't expect was a sudden erosion of their lead in the later stages of the game , and they were glad to come out of it with their scalp intact . |
| 44 | Negotiating the allocation encountered problems ( some entrenched Liberal candidates were unwilling to step down in favor of SDP candidates ) but , once achieved , the local party responsible for fielding a candidate made its choice and that candidate was then endorsed by the other party . |
| 45 | Finding a new childcarer is so traumatic that 80% of the mothers surveyed admitted they did n't have the courage to give an inadequate nanny the sack immediately ; 60% of those who were unhappy carried on with their carer for a month , and 35% for up to six months . |
| 46 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 47 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 48 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 49 | After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other . |
| 50 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 51 | These were all covered over with baulks of timber secured with concrete and well stocked with food and weapons . |
| 52 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 53 | We were all pressed back into our seats . |
| 54 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 55 | ‘ They were all dressed up in their Sunday best , in real contrast to the Western tourists who were all in casual , holiday clothes . |
| 56 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 57 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 58 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 59 | Behind her back they were all doubling up with laughter wondering what she meant . |
| 60 | Wetherby , Huntingdon and Market Rasen were all called off on Thursday and the casualty list lengthened yesterday with the abandonments of Sedgefield and Wolverhampton . |