Example sentences of "were [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [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 | These were all covered over with baulks of timber secured with concrete and well stocked with food and weapons . |
| 5 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 6 | We were all pressed back into our seats . |
| 7 | ‘ They were all dressed up in their Sunday best , in real contrast to the Western tourists who were all in casual , holiday clothes . |
| 8 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 9 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wetherby , Huntingdon and Market Rasen were all called off on Thursday and the casualty list lengthened yesterday with the abandonments of Sedgefield and Wolverhampton . |
| 12 | They were all made up as a batch were n't they ? |
| 13 | The bills were all made out to Hugo Rune . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire . |
| 16 | She was only guessing like , cos they were all wrapped up in paper , but she said she knew . |
| 17 | ‘ Rehearsal ceased , we were all bussed back to our schools and the music festival was cancelled for 1952 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But we were all kitted out in life jackets . |
| 21 | In Canaan , prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship . |
| 22 | Aye , they were all mixed up with them were n't they ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity . |
| 25 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 26 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 30 | 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 . |