Example sentences of "[pron] were [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 2 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 3 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 4 | I can tell you this much , if I were Lionel Dunbar , I 'd have packed her in months ago . |
| 5 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 6 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 7 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 8 | In fact I were shop steward in the , in the building trade , I was a shop steward in the building trade . |
| 9 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 10 | and his were fivepence ha'penny |
| 11 | The groining tended to begin in places such as Brighton and Hove , where which were holiday areas , and who wanted to make sure they kept their beach , and wanted if possible to even enlarge their beach and certainly the urban area of the resort developed . |
| 12 | The other major import group was machinery and transport equipment , the largest sources of which were West Germany , Italy , the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain , and Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | This dependence is demonstrated in the subsidiary status of their churches , which were daughter churches to the minster . |
| 14 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 15 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 16 | Some of which were cover versions that one or other of us had found . |
| 17 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 18 | About 40 cars were required , most of which were E Class cars from Hammersmith depôt at the other end of the route . |
| 19 | WEU Foreign Ministers , meeting in the margins of the summit , adopted a declaration which included commitments to ( i ) elaborate and implement decision and actions of the Union with defence implications ; ( ii ) invite EC countries not then WEU members ( i.e. Denmark and Greece — which were NATO members — and neutral Ireland ) to join ; and ( iii ) move the WEU headquarters from London to Brussels . |
| 20 | Exercise 8–4 How would the above analysis change if the government issued bonds which were tax exempt' ? |
| 21 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 22 | Until last year , TI had two main businesses — John Crane engineered seals and Bundy fluid carrying systems , both of which were world leaders in their fields and boasted multi-million pound turnovers . |
| 23 | A total of 147 aircraft , 121 of which were combat planes ( including some of the best possessed by Iraq ) , found refuge in Iran . |
| 24 | Professor Hoskins divided towns into those he called planned , those described as open-field towns and those which were market towns . |
| 25 | E/1 cars these Croydon cars had folding platform steps , on the backs of which were side lifeguards , which came into position when the steps were folded up . |
| 26 | The types which were Boston Fighter Bombers and Harvard Trainers , both were American planes . |
| 27 | Some of which were songs John and I had written together . |
| 28 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
| 29 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 30 | That 's slightly up on 1991 when the firm sold a total of 5,225 workstations worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |