Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 3 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 4 | The legs I saw were white . |
| 5 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 6 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 7 | The other books I remember were Keary and Keary 's Heroes of Asgard , Kipling 's Jungle Book and Puck of Pook 's Hill , and , particularly , A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia by Powell-Cotton . |
| 8 | My mother always maintained that the first words I said were " Go yay , " which meant " Go away " and showed an independent spirit . |
| 9 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 10 | The words you spoke were frenzied prayers |
| 11 | The recordings you made were mainly smaller-scale pieces . |
| 12 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 13 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 14 | ‘ The remedies we examined were all equally good and should relieve the classic symptoms of a hangover , ’ said Sue Leggate , editor of Which ? . |
| 15 | The organizations we studied were involved in a widely differing range of activities . |
| 16 | Our first ride lasted for just 45 minutes ; most of the drivers we met were considerate and took notice of the ‘ Slow please , young horse message emblazoned on my tabard . |
| 17 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 18 | Three quarters of the teenagers we questioned were unhappy with sex education at school . |
| 19 | The lads we met were a group who choose to meet with Father Patrick weekly . |
| 20 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 21 | We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production . |
| 22 | The large fishing vessels we saw were all well maintained with modern equipment . |
| 23 | Thus although the laws of 1861 succeeded in turning serfs into smallholders , the methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry 's favour . |
| 24 | The methods they used were were the same tactical methods |
| 25 | As the Canadian railway companies experimented for a distinctive national style , it is perhaps not surprising that they turned to French models , although the styles they adopted were often filtered through the United States . |
| 26 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 27 | Yet it was the only way to go if the labels they represent were to compete with the might of the majors . |
| 28 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 29 | In mitigation Lawrence Hazell said the defendant had acted stupidly in accepting invitations to drive cars he knew were stolen . |
| 30 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |