Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] were [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They were taking a trip to Canada and the States and were to be staying with Cassie 's Canadian aunt and uncle .
2 Yeah I I did look at it from from from after Christmas and there have been no complaints at all , in the accident book up until the eighteenth of March that were of that nature .
3 They had escaped from Sebastopol and were at large in the Black Sea .
4 We said good-bye to Stoyaeka and were at the warehouse at 07:30 where we were introduced to Josef who would co-ordinate the unloading of the trailer .
5 General elections were to be held in October and were to be accompanied by a two-part referendum .
6 In the first district ( A ) all services provided by its own units were deemed to be " core " by the DGM and were to be supplied within the district " come hell or high water " .
7 Rice , too , in river outlets to the Pacific that were like oases of green in the waste of sand that fringed the coast .
8 ‘ Because you were a contemporary of a student named Morpurgo and were with him when he was injured in a car crash in the Trinity term of 1968 .
9 Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own .
10 On Dec. 28 Khmer Rouge radio reported that its troops were " on the verge " of overrunning the city of Battambang and were in control of the Angkor Wat temples .
11 Two Germans were arrested in Bangkok in June and were to be extradited to Germany to face charges relating to Sonntag 's murder .
12 GE of the USA had ten times the back-up staff and resources of EMI and were on first name terms with the key people in the medical world .
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