Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 4 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 5 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 6 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 7 | Oh , I did my homework , while you were screaming along with the boys ! |
| 8 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 9 | I mean it was , you , you were sent out of the room . |
| 10 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 11 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 12 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 13 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 14 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 15 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 16 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 17 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 18 | and you were going out into the |
| 19 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 20 | Oh chicken , you did n't think when you were running around on the farm that you would be lucky enough to be served to one who — May I ? |
| 21 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 22 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |
| 23 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 24 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 25 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 26 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 27 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 28 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 29 | And er then we were led through into the assembly area . |
| 30 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |