Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] were [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 2 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 3 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 4 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 5 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 6 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 7 | In mitigation Lawrence Hazell said the defendant had acted stupidly in accepting invitations to drive cars he knew were stolen . |
| 8 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 9 | Many of the youngsters who survived were left mentally and physically handicapped . |
| 10 | As the kettle began to boil , she realised that the mugs she needed were stowed beneath the sink . |
| 11 | Parents who objected were torn apart as heretics . |
| 12 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 13 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 14 | Over at East New Houses in Baldersdale the youngsters they hired were regarded as family . |
| 15 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 16 | The bands which appeared were selected by the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) on behalf of the MU and the ICA . |
| 17 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 18 | Some of the individuals they trapped were found to be wearing rings already . |
| 19 | In my day the only coaches we had were called charabancs and had four wheels and a man in a peaked hat . ’ |
| 20 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 22 | Turning to the stay of proceedings , the principles which applied were enshrined in The Abidin Daver ( 1984 ) AC 398 and The Spiliada ( 1987 ) AC 460 . |
| 23 | The officers who died were named as Constable William Hanson and Reserve Constables David Sterritt and Cyril Willis . |
| 24 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 25 | I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues . |
| 26 | Indeed , in the 1970s , the theoretical influence of Jean Ricardou , who was aligned to both movements , extended even to the actual fiction produced by Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon at that stage , and several of the concepts he formulated were regurgitated in critical interventions by these writers . |
| 27 | A professional designer , Jean Bayle , with a track record for breathing new life into tired titles , was hired but the changes he favoured were deemed rather too radical and , in the end — as is often the case on Le Monde where the staff hold a significant stake in the company — the consensus view prevailed . |
| 28 | Some local authorities have been very effective at this — in Greenwich , people who registered were entered in a prize draw . |
| 29 | Guy 's did not close the children 's intensive care unit — where Dean and a second baby who died were treated — until later . |
| 30 | Data from the patients who withdrew were included in the analysis up to the point of withdrawal . |