Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] were [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that people used to let you know about they were hard up I mean , they just would n't would they ? |
| 2 | But any woman would have reacted with anger to his insults , he reminded himself , especially if the barbs he 'd slung at her were accurate and she was trying to convince him otherwise . |
| 3 | Scattered around him were complete skeletons reminding him of when his country was able to produce crops and feed animals . |
| 4 | The remarks that had been made about him were confusing . |
| 5 | Mother had so much to do outside and the old folk living with us were ailing and needed a lot of attention . |
| 6 | ‘ The cuts they were wanting from us were ridiculous . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 8 | Erm yeah oh the bearings we we they usually were bought from They were American er brass bearings , huge brass things you know . |
| 9 | A. McCormick summarizes the general opinion thus : ‘ probably the very crimes attributed to him were essential to terrorize his gang and bring them to subjection . |
| 10 | Moreover , many officials believed that chenas caused soil erosion and that the grains produced on them were unhealthy . |
| 11 | Should I seek to impose a legal limit on daily TV viewing , even supposing that it were enforceable ? |
| 12 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher had been such a dominant political figure for so long , her approach to politics so radical , that all who served with her were stuck with a general defence of her record . |
| 14 | These treaties were often impressively strict and cunning : in some cases , for example , shepherds bound by them were obliged to walk ahead of their flocks in the mornings , so that they were unable to drive the animals to where they knew the best grass to be . |
| 15 | If the people who worked for her were happy , she felt , her guests were happy . |
| 16 | From May 6 restrictions on the amount of money Greek travellers to EC countries might take with them were relaxed , as part of a Bank of Greece package of liberalization measures to meet EC guidelines ; Greeks were also to be able to participate as individuals on EC member countries ' stock markets . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said although the cartridges had been tampered with they were harmless and would not have detonated or caused injury . |
| 18 | Michelle Howard says the surgeons who operated on her were negligent , but the hospital denies its staff did anything wrong . |
| 19 | The people who looked after them were inadequate because they were dirty , messy and disorganised so inevitably there were leakages of the food . |
| 20 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah Them things that Patricia had put to you were disgusting . |
| 22 | Two Commandos had taken their boots off yesterday evening and found after a couple of hours standing to they were unable to get them on again , both feet had swollen badly . |
| 23 | Yeah , but I think all the things they said about him were true , I hate the man I do . |
| 24 | He felt slightly uncomfortable , having seen three men in lounge suits on his way back from the bathroom ; the only clothes he had with him were casual ones . |
| 25 | All the readers who wrote to us were ordinary people doing ordinary jobs , people of all ages and professions . |
| 26 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
| 27 | The people gathered around them were dirty and foul-smelling , men and women wearing threadbare jerkins and tattered cloaks . |
| 28 | Now all they had to show for it were lumpy figures , thin hair , flowered cotton overalls and carpet slippers , as they swept the scene of their former modest triumphs . |
| 29 | The police said to begin with they were powerless to intervene , until disorder broke out the only offence being committed was trespass . |
| 30 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |