Example sentences of "[pron] were [noun] in [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 3 | Miss Phoebe 's pitted cheeks were quite pink and there were tears in her eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm avoiding Broad Street because of the cranes , ’ Meg replied , and Lee saw that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ My lord , it is good to see you , ’ she told him , and this time there were tears in her eyes . |
| 6 | There were tears in her eyes . |
| 7 | Horror ‘ There were tears in her eyes , even though her face was burned . ’ |
| 8 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 9 | There were tears in her eyes as , withdrawing her hands from him , she nodded . |
| 10 | There were tears in her eyes as she gazed up at him . |
| 11 | She was shouting now , and nearly crying — there were tears in her eyes . |
| 12 | Anne looked at me and I could see , even in the state I was in , that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There were tears in her eyes that Jenna did not miss , and as the door closed she turned her blue eyes on Alain . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | There were tears in her eyes and she was looking far from pleased . |
| 17 | But there were tears in her eyes . |
| 18 | There were tears in her eyes . |
| 19 | There were tears in her eyes as she hugged her . |
| 20 | They stung , as they were meant to , and there were tears in her eyes when he roughly turned her over . |
| 21 | There were tears in his eyes when he crouched to gather up the debris , scooping it into a pile with both hands while Sweetheart roared with laughter . |
| 22 | When I looked at him , there were tears in his eyes , and he said , ‘ It 's not us who 'll have the problem , Mum . |
| 23 | But there were tears in his eyes too . |
| 24 | ‘ There were tears in his eyes and he could n't really speak . |
| 25 | There were tears in his eyes . |
| 26 | There were tears in his eyes . |
| 27 | There were tears in his eyes . |
| 28 | The boy was shaking , and when he looked up at Rory there were tears in his eyes . |
| 29 | When he looked up there were tears in his eyes . |
| 30 | And when he moved back , there were tears in his eyes , real grief in his expression . |