Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 2 | and again ( after they 'd been told they were on camera ! |
| 3 | Lachlan , I 'm thinking you were in the right of it ; there 's no proof , but from the description , this Iain Og is most likely John Campbell of Cawdor , Argyll 's lad . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 5 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 6 | I think he was pretending we were in a TV movie . |
| 7 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 8 | The other was to ask who were to be the leaders of armies , and by what criteria they might claim to lead . |
| 9 | However , her first feelings when she was sent there were of betrayal and resentment . |