Example sentences of "were [adj] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent .
2 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 .
3 This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up .
4 We were all fatigued enough for the rail road from Southampton is new and rough . ’
5 ‘ It 's that good to see you , Master Harry , ’ she said when at last they were all seated comfortably round the dining-table .
6 These were all covered over with baulks of timber secured with concrete and well stocked with food and weapons .
7 Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year .
8 We were all pressed back into our seats .
9 ‘ They were all dressed up in their Sunday best , in real contrast to the Western tourists who were all in casual , holiday clothes .
10 We were all flung on to the roof .
11 Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool .
12 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 .
13 Wetherby , Huntingdon and Market Rasen were all called off on Thursday and the casualty list lengthened yesterday with the abandonments of Sedgefield and Wolverhampton .
14 They were all made up as a batch were n't they ?
15 The bills were all made out to Hugo Rune .
16 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 .
17 The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire .
18 She was only guessing like , cos they were all wrapped up in paper , but she said she knew .
19 ‘ Rehearsal ceased , we were all bussed back to our schools and the music festival was cancelled for 1952 . ’
20 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 .
21 They were all thrown forward in the same direction .
22 There was a screech of brakes and then we were all thrown forward in the coach .
23 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 .
24 But we were all kitted out in life jackets .
25 In Canaan , prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship .
26 Aye , they were all mixed up with them were n't they ?
27 The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals .
28 But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity .
29 The woman 's past history of mental disorder , family relations and support and medical opinion were all considered both with GP and other referrals in a minimum of 93 per cent of cases .
30 We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace .
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