Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] were [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He and my father were in the army together , friends . |
| 2 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 3 | Beryl and her freind were in the living-room , across the passage . |
| 4 | ( By the beginning of the fifth century ) the Olympian religion and its mythology were in a state of crisis . |
| 5 | And , and that 's only because her husband were on a promise from her . |
| 6 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 7 | She made it sound as if her husband were in the employ of a superior company . |
| 8 | Rhodes and her baby were at the centre of a nationwide hunt last month when they went missing . |
| 9 | A sobbing girl said : ‘ Gerard and his mum were in the living room when the shooting started . |
| 10 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 11 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 12 | Those around him anxious to please and do his bidding were in no doubt as to what he wanted and desperately sought a solution at any price that would satisfy their commander-in-chief . |
| 13 | He was stripped to the waist and the scars on his chest were like a map of the battles in which he had fought . |
| 14 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 15 | And like all of the other investors , he and his wife were in a quandry . |
| 16 | He kept listening for sounds that would tell him Blackbeard and his henchman were in the vicinity . |
| 17 | I presume that more patients from his district were near the top of our waiting list ; in addition to , a third of the patients having such bypass operations from his district this year had unstable angina and were operated on urgently . |
| 18 | My landlord and his servant were in no hurry to help , and could not have climbed the cellar steps more slowly , but luckily a woman , who I supposed was the housekeeper , rushed into the room to calm the dogs . |
| 19 | He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee . |