Example sentences of "they [was/were] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were no strangers to Jack because he called out ‘ See yer later Molly ’ as took his leave . |
| 2 | THREE high school pupils proved they were no mugs when they took part in a shared business project with Wedgwood staff . |
| 3 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 4 | There were no bother , they just they were a men er a a male carriage cleaner and the women were women . |
| 5 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 6 | They were the descendants of the ambitious late medieval farmers , such as we have seen in Wadhurst , who had expanded their holdings as the older hierarchies broke down . |
| 7 | There followed a silence that Nicandra could neither interrupt nor question — they were the Grown-Ups . |
| 8 | They were the moments , too , when new franchise areas were set up , such as Yorkshire in 1967 , and new services such as Breakfast TV ( 1981 ) and Channel 4 ( 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The grants , the of the grants of course increased over the years and the main thing about erm awards of course was to assess them and this is something which erm , I always felt a bit self conscious about because , we had this erm very comprehensive form where parents and erm , oh individuals when they were the students themselves had to complete and give very precise details of income |
| 10 | ‘ I thought they were the ravings of someone who was incredibly self-pitying . ’ |
| 11 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 12 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 13 | They were the embers of Hell itself . |
| 14 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 15 | There began , too , to be a criss-cross of tracks and it was n't always easy to tell if they were the paths of animals or men . |
| 16 | They were the stars of the show and this was reflected in the excellent coverage which the BBC gave both the Essex team and in turn Complete , on the Crufts programmes . |
| 17 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He still told jokes , but they were the jokes of a man who could n't see anything funny any more , the jokes of a man with one eye on the door . |
| 19 | They were the objects and not the subjects of the liberal era . |
| 20 | Generally , they were the cast-offs of two children in the house who happened to be about her own age , and this could mean a pretty frock coming her way , but only if , Mrs Aggie said , she kept her nose clean . |
| 21 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 22 | They were the faces of people concerned predominantly either with what people thought about their behaviour , property , social standing , or with their own judgment of other people 's behaviour , property , social standing . |
| 23 | And I saw that they were the feet of a fish-scaled claw-toed monster … |
| 24 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 25 | It turned out that they were the owners of a restaurant in LA . |
| 26 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 27 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 28 | They were the wings of Argos . |
| 29 | They were the wings of the riddling Sphinx , they were the wings of the Archangel Michael as he descends with his sword shaped like a flame ; the wings of the angel who watches , a single tear on his left cheek , as Adam and Eve make their staggering way out of Paradise . |
| 30 | They were the wings of the riddling Sphinx , they were the wings of the Archangel Michael as he descends with his sword shaped like a flame ; the wings of the angel who watches , a single tear on his left cheek , as Adam and Eve make their staggering way out of Paradise . |