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Example sentences for "boys were"

  • As a general rule, no boys were allowed to sit in any of the class-rooms except their legitimate occupants.

  • Meanwhile, the dormitory-boys were aghast, and as soon as they heard the doctor's retreating footsteps, began flocking in the dark to No.

  • In addition to herding the sheep, we boys were in charge of a herd of about two hundred little calves.

  • We boys were part of it all, and Klaas was the hero of the hour.

  • Plenty of boys were ready to join, and soon there was a tremendous clattering away with hoop-sticks and hoops, while Ernest was seen with a light thin hoop, dodging in noiselessly among them.

  • Tom Bouldon, rushing into the play-room, where a number of boys were assembled, soon after breakfast, on a lovely day during the Easter holidays.

  • A number of boys were looking on, all curious to see what was to be produced.

  • We boys were called in by Sir Hugh, and highly proud at being employed by him in copying notices to be sent out in the morning, offering a reward for the discovery of little Hugh.

  • We boys were, I must say, the most active in our movements, and it was a mercy that we did not set the house on fire.

  • I remember one sunny afternoon, four or five of us boys were sitting up in the barn over the horse stalls eating peanuts.

  • But that was top secret as far as we boys were concerned.

  • We boys were in school, so Old Scotch was with Papa, also building fence and looking after Papa.

  • My boys were badly in need of a rest, the work having been very trying since Kahanama's, and the fever from which I was suffering made it equally acceptable to me.

  • This pigmy fled on my approach, and although the country was perfectly flat, and therefore my boys were on equal terms when they tried to catch him, he easily escaped.

  • I gave out orders that all my boys were to make sandals, and prepare food and water for two days.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boys and; boys were; boys will; camp meeting; cartilaginous fishes; common thing; driving snow; flowers yellow; flying squirrel; get them; give heed; good cousin; great man; intellectual life; keeping them; kind enough; local authorities; measuring reed; other creatures; otherwise mentioned; rising early; when time; white race; women workers