Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Heinrich and I were with each other all the time . |
| 2 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
| 3 | ‘ Ye were in that room alone with her . |
| 4 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 5 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 6 | And she were in that bedroom with us , the there were t there were dad , me , Barbara and Angela . |
| 7 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 8 | I did explain to her that you were on this case — ‘ |
| 9 | ‘ You were at that factory by nine o'clock , were n't you ? |
| 10 | It 's common knowledge that you were at that dinner with me . |
| 11 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 12 | And you you were at this school till you were fourteen ? |
| 13 | Richard come back where you were at this side . |
| 14 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 15 | I presume you were at this morning 's ? ’ |
| 16 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 17 | How much the employer pays depends on how long you were in that scheme . |
| 18 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ When you were in that apothecary 's , I thought we were being watched . |
| 20 | If you desire a loving , intimate relationship , ask yourself how you would think , feel and behave if you were in that relationship — and do it now . |
| 21 | Whilst you were in that bedroom throughout the operation did you see any other officer point any sort of gun into the back of Mr head ? |
| 22 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 23 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |
| 24 | But I found it really helpful to have known you both because you were in both groups and involved in the Union and the EOP Working Party . |
| 25 | I thought you were in this bit . |
| 26 | Well , that you were in this afternoon . |
| 27 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 28 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 29 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Finnan went on , ‘ seeing your company so finely decked out for travelling , if you were by any chance headed the same way ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |