Example sentences of "they were and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 2 | They were and still are designed to give that style of dance spaciousness , calm , balance and grace of form so that the lines drawn during the transition from one step an/or pose to another fills the available space in every dimension . |
| 3 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 4 | Francis Morgan stood and stared at them , and even before the man stepped forward steadily , hand extended , mouth opening to speak , he understood who they were and what they had come to tell him . |
| 5 | Big lads they were and all . |
| 6 | Nonconformists could not win : if they followed normal Victorian uses and imitated the past , whether it was Greek , Gothic , Lombard , Norman or St Paul 's Cathedral , they were and are criticized for not having a new style . |
| 7 | But Saddam did not return her calls , the hostages stayed where they were and Jeff and Ilona were married in her native Budapest last summer . |
| 8 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 9 | Dusk came quickly and they decided to stay where they were and camp for the night . |
| 10 | With no experience of being accepted for who and what they were and are , it is hard for them in their turn to accept the other for what he or she is , or is becoming . |
| 11 | They were and are magnificent . |
| 12 | Whoever they were and whatever they were doing , both were obviously far more scared than he was . |
| 13 | They were and still are helpful in my classical playing , but they also helped me in developing slurring in my electric playing . |
| 14 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 15 | Since his death , business people had phoned the bank to say how sorry they were and what a good job Mr Miller had done , said Mrs Temple . |
| 16 | Kids , that 's all they were and in need of a bit of looking-after . |
| 17 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 18 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 19 | Erm it so happened that that the group that that Britain was supporting perhaps were constitutionalists although Canning was almost erm was always rather scathing about how liberal they were and how constitutionalist they were . |
| 20 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 21 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 22 | The photographs were printed in a series of features about celebrities ' wives and who they were and how they coped . |
| 23 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 24 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 25 | So I found out who they were and what they were . |
| 26 | I vaguely remember dreaming about Verity 's jeans that night ; how graphically , geographically tight they were and how wonderful it must be to take them off her . |
| 27 | Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were . |
| 28 | On the other hand , when they got the chance , they drank more than was good for them , and they all smoked , either surreptitiously or openly , depending on where they were and the various fashions in tolerance among their parents , some of whom still smoked cannabis to the scorn of their offspring . |
| 29 | I always do that — try and work out what age they were and think God , he did that when he was 21 . |
| 30 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |