Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 2 | And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods . |
| 3 | The fact that they broke in but did n't take anything , and also that they were obviously professionals , makes me think they were looking for something specific . |
| 4 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 5 | You let me think you were Judith ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everything you said and did made me think you were a very experienced woman . ’ |
| 7 | Rebecca Hall then came up with four other volunteers … all of whom admitted they were n't farmers . |
| 8 | ‘ Not a word out of that dog to let me know you were coming , ’ her mother said crossly . |
| 9 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
| 10 | He let me know you were all right . |
| 11 | Why did n't you let me know you were coming ? ’ |
| 12 | Why did n't you ring me and let me know you were coming ? |
| 13 | Why has everyone forgotten we were 4th the year before ( above scum ) , and the year before that won the 2nd division ? |
| 14 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 15 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 16 | suddenly I mean they were outcasts |
| 17 | And erm I mean they were quite they would n't they would n't get rid of a baby , but a lot of people thought they would . |
| 18 | er policing of the flats , I mean they were n't erm strongly in evidence . |
| 19 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 20 | And that that was n't regular , I mean they were n't fighting ? |
| 21 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 22 | I mean they were lovely boots I mean a pair of water boots three pounds twelve and six and we used to put them , er make 'em soft , we used to do them over with text oil . |
| 23 | Cos I mean they were , they were , they had so many you know , that was a lot |
| 24 | They would n't , I mean they were old men |
| 25 | I mean they were n't aluminium so they blew off I used to wear one of those and er , you know , for safety , you see , but er anyway I survived the survived the war and but wh it 's amazing really when I look back how we d how we managed because we had such nice people in there , as I say and like these actors Jack Claude Cecily . |
| 26 | And that that came round er I mean they were stamped and er the turn you know the each I I do n't I do n't remember what what they were examined , but er th you know the the that was the law that they had to be . |
| 27 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 28 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 29 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 30 | And I mean the kids the kids that we yo yo some kids er , I mean they were just beautiful and other kids lost them within a couple of days ! |