Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | This really is committee work but I , it does occur to me that mention it that erm , if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers me were , we may well then be liable to be sued by the person who |
| 2 | But during this twelve months you were still actually working ? |
| 3 | The referees you were looking for you |
| 4 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know whose messengers you were . |
| 6 | erm , right okay , well I 'll look into that , but I think that serves a good point , right moving back to the agenda , erm , note of meeting fifth of August , erm , anything for those of you who were there , that Cath had to run away , that was one of your crises you were having |
| 7 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 8 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 9 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 10 | ‘ And we talked about the books we were reading . |
| 11 | We all met every evening and sat under the trees discussing films we had seen , books we were reading and radio programmes we had heard . |
| 12 | about three books we were put in |
| 13 | ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’ |
| 14 | It is true to say that the German nightfighter dictated the tactics we were forced to adopt . |
| 15 | In the context of them doing 8 performances we were happy to pay them £120,000 . |
| 16 | You know those key words we were discussing earlier . |
| 17 | She told us ( 27 January , p 221 ) that a neutron decays into a proton , an electron and a neutrino , but in the diagram accompanying her words we were shown a representation of a neutron decaying into a proton , an electron and an antineutrino . |
| 18 | In other words we were mistaken in thinking that there could be two electrons " here " , or in any other state of motion for that matter . |
| 19 | In other words we were , we were considerably concerned about the extent of the war . |
| 20 | In other words we were , we were considerably concerned about the extent of the war . |
| 21 | Although there had been some good reports from other growers we were not happy with crop or , particularly , flavour when we first grew it last year — 1990 . |
| 22 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 23 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 24 | I remember one article on Bob Dylan where , throughout , Dylan was spelt ‘ Dillon ’ , which was wonderful ammunition for Wenner to say what an incompetent bunch of shits we were . |
| 25 | By holding NI numbers on our CPIS we were able to obtain a significant saving on labour . |
| 26 | By the time we were packing the chutes we were both hooked and planning another trip . |
| 27 | But for the rates and the schools we were Buckinghamshire . |
| 28 | So it was an uphill struggle and within three months we were doing well in shop and I left my job and since then I 'm in Walsall . |
| 29 | They will recollect the guidelines they were given themselves as children . |
| 30 | The mixture between cajun , bluegrass and boogie styles was almost seamless and all gained from the five musicians ' vigour and enthusiasm for the songs they were playing . |