Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pers pn] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
| 2 | Only two people in this group said that the difficulty had been that they were refused credit . |
| 3 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
| 4 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 5 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 6 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 7 | If Skinner is right , and children 's language is strongly influenced by the way in which those around them respond , how much more effective might the same processes be if they were applied deliberately and systematically . |
| 8 | So would I be if they were ordering an early confrontation with M Delors . |
| 9 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 10 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 11 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 12 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 13 | Well it can be if you were to die without leaving proper protection for your family as premature death is n't just one death but three , the death of a father , the death of a husband and the death of a salary . |
| 14 | Indeed the Court of Appeal has strongly disapproved of judges telling a defendant what the sentence would be if he were to plead guilty . |
| 15 | Before they had left her flat he had telephoned colleagues to say where he would be if he were needed . |
| 16 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
| 17 | I 'm never late for things , I try really hard to be late , but I just ca n't be because we were told off so much about it . |
| 18 | There had to be when they were working together , worshipping tripping over one another in their free time , perhaps even sharing a house . |
| 19 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 20 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 21 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 22 | The terms of reference of the Committee were that they were to consider , firstly , the law and practice relating to homosexual offences and the treatment of persons convicted of such offences by the Courts ; and secondly , ‘ the law and practice relating to offences against the criminal law in connection with prostitution and solicitation for immoral purposes ’ . |
| 23 | If we were if we were doing velocity time graphs and things . |
| 24 | Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish . |
| 25 | And you knocked on the doors and you canvassed who you were , they could hardly miss who you were since you were dressed up in this uniform showing everywhere , black and red , looked very smart , for a little chap . |
| 26 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 27 | Er , we did er you know practise military formations as they were as they were practised in er in those days and so on . |
| 28 | Actually what we 'll do is we 'll give you Er you 're probably a bit bigger than you were when we were giving you three er on three times a day . |
| 29 | The most important complaint is that we were given no information . |
| 30 | but what I meant was is that we were gon na have a sort of a little gathering before but I suppose we could have that today sort of . |