Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my answers were in that sense . |
| 2 | My children were in that position . ’ |
| 3 | My boots were by each indent of pressure keeping the route and the spirit of those who walked before alive . |
| 4 | Its leaders were at each other 's throats . |
| 5 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 6 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 7 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 8 | Dr Jack Cuzick , an ICRF scientist , said that 75,000 of the women were likely to have important underlying disease but , without referring all 250,000 to hospital , there was no way of knowing which women were in that group . |
| 9 | Hence , great pastor , preacher , and luminous expounder of the faith though he was , and moderate though his views were on most matters concerning the relations between the Church and secular society , his most cherished views were all doomed to failure from the start : they neither moved with the times , nor stood firm in the practical conveniences of the past . |
| 10 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |