Example sentences of "[pron] were [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 3 | Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth . |
| 4 | I missed out at geography , which I loved , English Lit , French , art and maths , all of which were subjects I enjoyed . |
| 5 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 6 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 7 | Do you think Elvis understood that you were people who needed to make a living on a day-to-day , month-to-month , year-to-year basis ? |
| 8 | We were daitlers we worked on the In the stone , you see ? |
| 9 | But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing . |
| 10 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 11 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 12 | God , we used to come here when we were kids you know ? |
| 13 | There were magistrates who appear to have relished ordering corporal punishment , but a minority thought it inappropriate and seldom included flogging as part of a sentence . |
| 14 | He happened to notice that there were crystals which appeared to be mirror images of each other . |
| 15 | In all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat . |
| 16 | There were rivers he visited as a child where he could sit and watch water voles every day . |
| 17 | Before his day , and after it , there were scholars who relied more on intuition . |
| 18 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 19 | He suffered defeat and banishment , but there were others who had to suffer it with him . |
| 20 | Some wished to receive Communion in the parish church and there were others who wished to receive Communion from Methodist preachers . |
| 21 | For this time there were others who shared in that dream , at least to the extent of wanting friendship between England and Scotland . |
| 22 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |
| 23 | And there were others who saw Chilperic 's rule as something new . |
| 24 | No there were others who thought , sod it I 'm not gon na turn up , you know , why should I ? |
| 25 | But there were exceptions : Gregory of Tours denied the claims of one would-be king called Munderic , who was crushed by Theuderic I. Chlothar I refused to acknowledge that Gundovald was his son , but there were others who thought that he was . |
| 26 | That showed over and over again that on issues such as security of supply , reliability of delivery , documentation , handling of complaints , efficiency of ordering service , and in particular , communication , there were others who tried harder and did better . |
| 27 | Even while he admired Nona and loved her , there were times he wanted to say : ‘ Look , Nona , there is this thing you have to take into account between us . ’ |
| 28 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 29 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 30 | In the period 160–60 B.C. there were Greeks who studied Roman history and institutions , not to flatter the Romans ( as too many did ) , but to understand Roman conquests . |