Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 2 | Existing UN food supplies were due to run out by the start of 1991 . |
| 3 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 4 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 5 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 6 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 7 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 8 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 9 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 18 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 21 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 22 | ‘ When I first met you , in that bar , you were all cut out round the edges , like something out of a cereal packet that does n't stand up when you 've made it . ’ |
| 23 | During July Albrecht , Beer , Lotze , Maier-Witt , Sternebeck and Viett were all handed over to the West German authorities ; Seckendorff-Gudent was released after allegations against him were dropped . |
| 24 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 25 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 26 | The major investigations of the early 1970s were all carried out with the hope of providing some suggestions for improvements to be applied in automated catalogues . |
| 27 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 28 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 29 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 30 | Cormack waited until they were all clambering out of the cars inside the boat , dragging jackets and bags . |