Example sentences of "they were [noun] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Strains of The Rolling Stones , The Faces , Bad Company and Free floated to the surface ( mainly due to Chris Robinson 's earthy vocal ) , but dig a little deeper and , like all good things , something special eventually showed itself and The Black Crowes proved that they were birds of another feather entirely . |
| 2 | It gave her an oddly unsettled feeling to think that Johnny used these things each day in his ordinary life , and that they were part of that aspect of his life of which she knew nothing . |
| 3 | They were part of another life , neat signals towards its ending . |
| 4 | In such societies it is frequently the case that the individual treats all outsiders " as if " they were kinsmen of some sort . |
| 5 | It can not , he argues , be tied to the notion of ‘ man ’ as if they were images of each other : |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd say they were remedials of some sort . |