Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] were [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean were people sitting with robes on or something ? |
| 2 | Others I met were Mr Richard Martin , the Hon. |
| 3 | The air dissolved around cordon bleu , and all I heard were parrot screeches , barking and the blowing of a horse 's soft mouth — that was him — and all I could say was : Quack quack quack . |
| 4 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 5 | ‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems . |
| 6 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 7 | The ones I knew were Bridget Margaret and Mary . |
| 8 | All I knew were prostitutes or pimps , and just about everyone had a criminal record . |
| 9 | ‘ The only spirits I saw were Jamesons and Glenfiddich . ’ |
| 10 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 11 | Everywhere I looked were logs , millions of them : logs on trucks , logs on barges , logs being lifted , logs being dropped , logs six feet in diameter , logs cut to seventy-foot lengths , logs being dragged out of the forest and spewed downstream in endless herring-bone floats … |
| 12 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 13 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 14 | The first words that I understood were words like ‘ fire ’ , and ‘ bread ’ . |
| 15 | I mean , all I did were leave book and ask them to check it . |
| 16 | Two chapters which I liked were R. Greef 's on ellipsometry and R.K. Wild 's on corrosion studies , and these were well directed to this need . |
| 17 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 18 | Other Leeds players I considered were Speed & Wallace , but Townsend & Merson just got the nod . |
| 19 | And when we moved to Manchester the thing I missed were things called sally loaves and you do n't |
| 20 | Amongst those who served were Edward Bohun , William de Montague , Robert Ufford , Hugh Audley and John Neville of Hornby , together with the ‘ disinherited ’ and the northern magnates . |
| 21 | She was bent down now , unbuttoning the lower half of her one-piece , her fingers moving gingerly , as if what she touched were flesh not cloth . |
| 22 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 23 | Other literary , theorists who attended were Christine Brooke-Rose , Christopher Norris , and Shlomith Rimmon , and the novelist , B. S. Johnson . |
| 24 | Among those who attended were Gerry Adams , MP for West Belfast , the US vice-consul Cathy Hurst , Graham Gudgin , Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre , Dr. Liam O'Dowd of Queen 's University , Belfast , along with many community activists , local councillors and representatives of political parties , including Lily Fitzsimmons , Sinn Féin , Alex Atwood , SDLP and Mary McMahon , Workers ' Party . |
| 25 | The only disappointment of the evening was the lack of interest shown by the ordinary members of the Society for this event ; most of those who attended were spouses , friends , or colleagues of the committee . |
| 26 | She recognized a couple of the museum staff but the rest who stared were strangers . |
| 27 | Three of those who died were pedestrians , one a driver , one a car passenger . |
| 28 | The four who died were Simon Dunne and Claire Langley , both 16 , Rachel Walker , 16 , and Dean Sayer , 17 , all from the Plymouth area . |
| 29 | The workmen who died were Robin Phelps from Brockweir in Gloucestershire and Eric Sullivan from Tintern in Gwent . |
| 30 | The 2 who died were Robin Phelps , from Brockweir in Gloucestershire and Eric Sullivan from Tintern in Gwent . |