Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 2 | The seneschal glanced at it briefly but did not appear excessively worried , even when after a few moments — the scullions running past and round them were all carrying pails of water and sand , fire blankets , cutting gear and stretchers . |
| 3 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 4 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 5 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 6 | But opposing them were associates of a group calling itself ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ , who felt that it would be necessary to deal harshly with Germany at the end of the war . |
| 7 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 8 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 9 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 10 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 11 | Erm I mean I were working |
| 12 | And now we 've come to stage whereas I mean I were cleaning carpet every minute of day . |
| 13 | This help took the form of the poor persons ' procedure in litigation but it was realised that procedures were no good unless those who might need them were aware of them . |
| 14 | Tombs found near the pyramids , which were constructed from about 2,550BC , also give the lie to the theory that the men who built them were slaves . |
| 15 | The the laboratories that created them were . |
| 16 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 17 | The people who reported me were overzealous in thinking I had done something wrong |
| 18 | The photographs which encircled me were happy with many smiling , young faces on them . |
| 19 | ‘ All I do know is that others who approached me were warned off . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | at the side of him , it 's eeeerrrr , hand on hooter and all of a sudden he goes back over again , he , he just did n't even know I were there , no signal , no nothing . |
| 22 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 23 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 24 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 25 | No costs may be claimed which were incurred before the relevant date set out in the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 26 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 27 | It was almost impossible to know which were coopers and carpenters and which smiths . |
| 28 | In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 . |
| 29 | In 1951 in four widely read newspapers — two national dailies ( Daily Mirror and The Times ) , the national Sunday ( Sunday People ) and one evening paper ( the London Evening Standard ) — there were only two cases reported which were not also covered by the News of the World . |
| 30 | Count up the ticks to discover which were most common . |