Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Others I met were Mr Richard Martin , the Hon. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | Some of the ones I passed were two or three pound they 're only a pound over there . |
| 16 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 17 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 18 | There was never a dull moment and among the places I visited were the Statue of Liberty , Central Park , the World Trade Centre , the Empire State Building , Wall Street and Chinatown . |
| 19 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 20 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 21 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 22 | Said , oh you were n't in last year when I came were you ? |
| 23 | From then on idle chit-chat returned and I made no attempt to direct things back to what I believed were more important matters . |
| 24 | But , apart from the devastation , especially in the harbour area , the only real dissimilarities I noticed were the shutters on the houses and the fact that the dwellings were all taller and narrower than in England . |
| 25 | The old man sat up with a jerk , slopping scotch over his hands which I noticed were shaking . |
| 26 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 27 | The parts of his work that I admired were , he assured me , those which were easiest to do ; the alterations I cautiously suggested would , he declared , only weaken the book . |
| 28 | last year the main results I achieved were … |
| 29 | The last words that I heard were , ‘ Good night , Piper , I shall leave the door open . ’ |
| 30 | The air dissolved around cordon bleu , and all I heard were parrot screeches , barking and the blowing of a horse 's soft mouth — that was him — and all I could say was : Quack quack quack . |