Example sentences of "were [art] ones [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This sentence is in the passive voice because the words " impartiality " and " impersonal " were the ones we wished to fix in your mind as you read the sentence . ) |
| 2 | Er the ones they did ride were the ones they used to drive at erm ah , down the two jars but er and that was a completely different way of life then to what that is now . |
| 3 | When I was a young lad in the ‘ fifties , the foreboding ‘ X ’ certificate was awarded to films which showed people in bed together or — and these were the ones I wanted to see — the Mummy , the Werewolf , Dracula , and good old Frankenstein . |
| 4 | His eyes , those tiger eyes , retaining mine from the moment I turned , were the ones I remembered ; steady , with no fear , without bravado . |
| 5 | Oh dear , and er I got new pair of sheets , because they were erm they were the ones I had . |
| 6 | Now , all these were black sheep , they were the nicest of the lot , and there was no , they were the ones you turned to , if you wanted to discuss your troubles . |
| 7 | For her the world was full of young men whose bodies were untainted by disease and these — he persuaded himself — were the ones she really craved , having no care for him at all , except some morbid interest in a diseased thing , which , presently , she would thrust aside with a disdainful shudder . |
| 8 | Kylie said she got on better with men than women , but put that down to the fact that the three guys in question were the ones she most closely worked with on the series . |
| 9 | Yes , the footsteps were the ones she heard every night in her own part of the Castle . |
| 10 | The stairs and bannisters were the ones she knew , the door to the sitting room and the one into the kitchen were in their familiar places but there the resemblance ended . |
| 11 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 12 | Those that bit him and hung on to his hand were the ones he bought . |
| 13 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |