Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 2 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 3 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 4 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 5 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 6 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 7 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 8 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 9 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 10 | The days which followed were among the most difficult in de Gaulle 's entire presidency . |
| 11 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 12 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 13 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 14 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 15 | Ten of the twenty four who died were in a block of three storey flats ; children were among them , their bodies found in a nearby field . |
| 16 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 17 | The result of a ballot announced yesterday showed 78 per cent of parents who voted were in favour of Helena Romanes school in Great Dunmow opting out . |
| 18 | A ballot organised by parents found that 94.3 per cent of those who voted were in favour of retaining the ILEA ; and 51.6 per cent of those entitled to vote rejected abolition . |
| 19 | An estimated 70 per cent of those who voted were in favour of the new constitution which enshrined a unitary state and reduced the powers of the president . |
| 20 | At 46 per cent the turnout was too low ( due to an opposition boycott ) to allow the required 50 per cent of the 7,000,000 voters in Serbia to approve the constitutional amendment , although 95 per cent of those who voted were in favour of early elections . |
| 21 | She always worked in good places , in the West End ; the hands she did were in Vogue once . |
| 22 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 23 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 24 | In the summer it had , of course , its share of visitors , but during the winter months , when half the cafés and shops were closed , most of the people one met were in bath chairs , or leaning heavily on some supporting arm . |
| 25 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 26 | The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother . |
| 27 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 28 | Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit . |
| 29 | BOB Phillips of Information Services at Risley sent us some motoring observations which we felt were worth sharing … |
| 30 | Considerable though the distance was across the metropolis , I sensed that the cultural and historical boundaries we traversed were of far greater significance . |