Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [ex0] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks . |
| 2 | were almost erm okay just like that , I mean there were one or two very good ones , I think there was one that was just about like that with the odd word and when an editor receives something like you , you know , it 's usually going to be something he wants to change very slightly , erm that , those were the best ones , there were in general however you have n't yet got used to the idea of editing . |
| 3 | what you 're looking for I mean there were firms like you know |
| 4 | I mean there were several people but m the surprising was the person in charge of of the work girls you see . |
| 5 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 6 | I mean there were there were still quite a lot of tenants who wanted to see police patrolling in twos and threes , through the complex . |
| 7 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 8 | I , I mean there were a lot of questions like you know does |
| 9 | But there was n't the , the erm ante natal care that there is these days , I mean there were no erm when you went round to se if you were a midwife and you went round to see the prospective mother you 'd say , now you are eating proper meals are n't you ? |
| 10 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 11 | Right , yeah it does , I mean there were , that 's how things went . |
| 12 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 13 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 14 | I mean there were so many h Well really whole families working in the quarry in various parts of the quarry you see . |
| 15 | I mean there were obviously a lot of things I could criticize . |
| 16 | I mean there were four or five knocking on door of er a friend of mine the other day , who said y They were they were under the age of ten . |
| 17 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 18 | I mean there were several stages before they got to present day man , but |
| 19 | I mean there were no real teeny boppers . |
| 20 | you know , and I stood there , I mean there were n't a lot , I did n't have no back-up , when everybody went |
| 21 | I mean there were n't very many teachers anyway were there ? |
| 22 | You can very often er for instance at Cheshire very often I mean there were sort of some people 's wives would like to do it . |
| 23 | I , I mean there were two plates |
| 24 | was saying when she lived out at erm cos I mean there were trees about there where their hou |
| 25 | I mean there were a lot of county councillors huffing and puffing . |
| 26 | Yeah , I mean there were bits |
| 27 | I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House . |
| 28 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 29 | ‘ When I went out to look at replacements , I found there were plenty of quality players available looking for work . |
| 30 | ‘ I found there were limitations on conveying a point of view or a situation , and I suddenly thought : you can get a lot more information out of looking at something made up from several pictures . |