Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach to Jesus in much of the theology and teaching with which Kierkegaard was familiar tended very much to see him too in that kind of light — as the founder of a religion , as the discoverer and imparter of divine truths , as the exemplar of particular values , which were only accidentally bound up with him , but in principle could be detached from him . |
| 2 | You wo n't touch me , you have n't done a thing for this goddam exhibition you were so all fired up about , and it 's OK ? |
| 3 | Peter endowed the occasion with an atmosphere of reconciliation : the fact that he and Kate were together somehow made up for Abbotsfield ; there was no longer any need to feel guilty . |
| 4 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 5 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 6 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 7 | Once again the world of the sands and holidays was left far behind as the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine and the committee members of the Literary Lionisers , together with such other Lionisers as could squeeze into the room allotted to them in police headquarters , were once again taken back over the events of last Saturday night . |
| 8 | The Justices of the Forest were once more sent out on eyre to hear pleas of the Forest , , and to re-establish the Forest system in any districts which had been lost . |
| 9 | We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison . |
| 10 | The attitude of the men he had spoken to had been essentially laissez-faire , but some of the women , Raleigh Ward nurses especially , were still quite steamed up about it . |
| 11 | But the most surprising difference was that their axes of preferential response were clearly not lined up with the axes of the on-off directionally selective type , and when Clyde Oyster and I analysed this in more detail we found what is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 12 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 13 | He and Vivienne were also probably fed up with the teds ' meathead mentality . |
| 14 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 15 | Some of the Prince 's friends were also somewhat put out at having their cosy relationship altered by the distraction of a young wife . |
| 16 | Raffle tickets were also quickly snapped up with an additional star prize of two first class rail tickets anywhere in Britain proving very popular . |
| 17 | School was going to be closed early because the rain had not stopped and the school and village were nearly totally cut off from everywhere else . |
| 18 | French nationals were evacuated by French army helicopter from both towns , which were now virtually cut off from contact with the outside world . |
| 19 | What came to be known as ‘ inter-ethnic communication ’ problems were quite often triggered off by prejudice , racial discrimination and stereotypes . |
| 20 | The crisp curls were then carefully worked through with Salon Formula Mousse for a softer , more delicate wave . |
| 21 | By mid-September the Germans were almost completely driven out of France and Belgium . |
| 22 | Governors were almost always sent out from England rather than chosen from among the men on the spot . |
| 23 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 24 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |