Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Summer those were dry we had to carry all the water then . |
| 2 | In contrast was his finding that amongst the prisoners of San Quentin jail , there were some who had achieved fulfilment . |
| 3 | She wondered whether it were conceivable he had forgotten about it . |
| 4 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 5 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 6 | The couple were unaware they had hit the headlines around the world after leaving Nicole , nine , and four-year-old Diana alone while they enjoyed a nine-day Mexican holiday in Acapulco . |
| 7 | We grieved greatly but were glad we had known it . |
| 8 | We were glad she had chosen us . |
| 9 | The juries themselves were confident they had understood the evidence . |
| 10 | A spokesman at the Los Angeles hospital said the 63 year old actress — famous for her roles in My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's had a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and that doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 11 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre , Los Angeles , said it was a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 12 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 13 | We were sure we had done nothing wrong . ’ |
| 14 | got friends to go in messing about all the time and they 've , al everything that she had that were decent they 've ruined it all . |
| 15 | Were all we had to eat |
| 16 | He was telling us that we were all he had left , that he did love me . |
| 17 | ‘ The entries in his diary were all I had to go on . |
| 18 | Many of the demonstrators were Nepalese who had crossed into southern Bhutan from India . |
| 19 | It was the babies you see that they were Well you had to have the doctor to you . |
| 20 | There were many who had predicted that Roebuck would claim Greg Martin 's Test fullback position after that tour . |
| 21 | Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting . |
| 22 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
| 23 | The schools from which the sample was to be drawn were those which had submitted reports , or were scheduled to do so , between the autumn of 1981 and the summer of 1985 . |
| 24 | Some of the nets in use were those I had made myself . |
| 25 | Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care . |
| 26 | But those least likely to have spent time in a hospital or hospice or to die in one were those who had lived in a nursing home for a year or more . |
| 27 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
| 28 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 29 | The ‘ unsafe ’ , heavily indebted countries were those who had over-borrowed but got no special international diplomatic help . |
| 30 | According to my understanding and knowledge , those who were sent back were those who had avoided the due process of immigration and had kept others out . |