Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of them were neither party members , nor teachers or agronomists , they represented a valuable addition to the ranks of those who might be able to promote smychka in the countryside . |
| 2 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 3 | All of them were either accounts of measures taken by the pope , or — in the letters to the king of Jerusalem and the count of Flanders — recommendations of obedience to the papal policy . |
| 4 | Their answers , outlined in Table 5 , below , show that only a quarter ( 25% ) of them were also readers . |
| 5 | A number of them were about 10% up on last year , and several were as much as 20% up . |
| 6 | They speak disparagingly of the Rowdies , yet many of them were once Rowdies themselves . |
| 7 | Yeah the carcasses , and they was in some of them was just sort of like died there and that was it , it was just there , and it rotted away and there was all |
| 8 | One of them was unmistakeably Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 9 | One of them was certainly Kenneth Baker , glossy , sleek and cheerful ; behind him plodded his detective , a literate and unhappy member of the Special Branch who much preferred Brighton rock to Brighton beach , especially at such a late hour . |
| 10 | No but I mean the basis of it was presumably landlord out and China was based around this |
| 11 | Erm greetings and appropriate sociability although it flowed a lot of it was actually sort of statements and or closed questions . |
| 12 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 13 | Erm , I should also say that bit about some of us were even gods , erm that also is erm there are some options there on translation erm you could also say men who were different and particular , that is we were and erm particular humans and we were gods . |