Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were due to go out at 2000 hours . |
| 2 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 3 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 4 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 5 | Workmen were said to be removing loads of so-called chips three times a day , and even to be building huts from waste timber in which to store chips they were unable to carry out at once . |
| 6 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |
| 7 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 8 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |