Example sentences of "were [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His association with these Hammersmith artists was a little resented by Elinor Moynihan who felt that , in comparison with the Soho painters , the Hammersmith set were artists with their claws pulled out . |
| 2 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 3 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 4 | ‘ Origins of the Present Crisis ’ , published in New Left Review in 1964 , and ‘ Components of the National Culture ’ , four years later , were texts of their times that excited a generation which , at least in many of the social sciences and humanities , now commands the heights of the academic system even if their radicalism has been dulled by more recent discontents . |
| 5 | But there were hollows in her cheeks and she was too thin for beauty . |
| 6 | ‘ There were rings on his fingers . |
| 7 | There were inconsistencies in their views , the students having inherited some of the contradictions of the past . |
| 8 | Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings . |
| 9 | There was the smell of flour and dripping on her apron front , lovely cosy smells which gave a safe feeling , but there were tears on her cheeks . |
| 10 | There were tears on her cheeks . |
| 11 | There were tears on her cheeks and he carefully eased them away with gentle fingers . |
| 12 | There were tears on her cheeks . |
| 13 | There were tears on his cheeks . |
| 14 | Miss Phoebe 's pitted cheeks were quite pink and there were tears in her eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 'm avoiding Broad Street because of the cranes , ’ Meg replied , and Lee saw that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ My lord , it is good to see you , ’ she told him , and this time there were tears in her eyes . |
| 17 | There were tears in her eyes . |
| 18 | Horror ‘ There were tears in her eyes , even though her face was burned . ’ |
| 19 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 20 | There were tears in her eyes as , withdrawing her hands from him , she nodded . |
| 21 | There were tears in her eyes as she gazed up at him . |
| 22 | She was shouting now , and nearly crying — there were tears in her eyes . |
| 23 | Anne looked at me and I could see , even in the state I was in , that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 24 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 25 | There were tears in her eyes that Jenna did not miss , and as the door closed she turned her blue eyes on Alain . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ I see that for all your fine words you are much like the rest , ’ and there were tears in her eyes when she turned away from him . |
| 27 | There were tears in her eyes and she was looking far from pleased . |
| 28 | But there were tears in her eyes . |
| 29 | There were tears in her eyes . |
| 30 | There were tears in her eyes as she hugged her . |