Example sentences of "[coord] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country .
2 They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong .
3 We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework .
4 Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar .
5 People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before .
6 Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it .
7 Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it .
8 He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base .
9 And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country .
10 Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents .
11 When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall .
12 Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House .
13 They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus .
14 And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy .
15 One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road .
16 The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol .
17 In his last 16 games as manager , Macari 's West Ham won only three matches and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Fourth Division Torquay .
18 We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it .
19 We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it .
20 The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves .
21 Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared .
22 shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade .
23 Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold .
24 Amaranth and Mrs de Crespigny summoned a taxi and were taken back to the Grand .
25 Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh .
26 Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute .
27 About fifty people attempted to gain entrance , but were held back by the police .
28 That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ .
29 Ards enjoyed a record-breaking unbeaten run recently but were dumped out of the Wilkinson Sword League Cup semi-final by Coleraine during the week and they may find Frankie Parks ' cup rollercoaster has gathered too much steam .
30 Police and troops made an attempt to recapture Red House on July 29 , but were ordered back by the Prime Minister who , along with several other hostages , had been wired with explosive charges .
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