Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 2 | The questions I asked were are what are they feeling ? |
| 3 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 4 | ( With a little re-working I even found the sweaters I made were nice enough to give as Christmas presents ! ) |
| 5 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 6 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 7 | In a public statement Bradley , who was liable to fines for failing to report major investments , said : " The errors I made were not deliberate . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean were you suitably impressed . ’ |
| 9 | And just as bad , even worse , in in terms of personal consequences , all the sort of corner shops in , particularly the the Asian off licences come grocers , were were I mean were were just looted . |
| 10 | I mean were , were there any sort of political issues she felt very strongly about ? |
| 11 | I mean were we talking about you know , I suppose a quick five minutes feedback but then you know , five minutes in three months time . |
| 12 | I mean were people sitting with robes on or something ? |
| 13 | I mean were there sort of different quality meats being sold |
| 14 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 15 | if one 's like it the other 's like it as long as that 's hanging there untouched there 's quite , quite safe , I mean were n't worth it |
| 16 | I mean were , was it sore or burning ? |
| 17 | did you do , I mean were you erm |
| 18 | Well that 's right , I mean were see what the weather 's like . |
| 19 | Yeah , but I mean were they all on the ? |
| 20 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 21 | I mean were |
| 22 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 23 | The Mlu I/Xho I digests were electrophoresed using a Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis apparatus in order to resolve large DNA fragments , following protocols previously described ( 37 ) . |
| 24 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 25 | Among the first people I met were the bridegroom 's uncle Mr Peter Stormonth-Darling , with his daughter Mrs Justin Cobb with her two-and-a-half year old daughter Zoë who was a bridesmaid . |
| 26 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 27 | The first friends I met were the bridegroom 's half-sister Lady Tana Focke , with Mr Paul Focke , and their two very attractive teenage daughters Diana Focke and Victoria Focke . |
| 28 | Others I met were Mr Richard Martin , the Hon. |
| 29 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 30 | Some of the ones I passed were two or three pound they 're only a pound over there . |