Example sentences of "they were [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever they were General Erskine 's thoughts were certainly not in accord with the French in Vietnam . |
| 2 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 3 | They were steam engines using coal power to drive factory machinery , and blast furnaces using coke to make large quantities of iron . |
| 4 | The matey use of Blanche 's name struck a false note with Dexter , like interviewees he had seen on chat shows who kept tossing in the name of the host every thirty seconds to make it appear they were bosom pals . |
| 5 | In this case , following the nemo dat principle , B is now the owner ; they were B's goods at the time A sold them to C and therefore A could not , without B 's authority , confer title upon C. This result would be , different , however , if C could show that C's contract with A fell within one of the exceptions to the nemo dat principle . |
| 6 | They were , they were calf length ones . |
| 7 | All the patients who were entered into this study were patients with multiple P T A , P T one , erm N X , M naught tumours , then I must stress that they were problem patients . |
| 8 | They were corn shops , which is what this was . |
| 9 | Think how irritated you would be if you began reading a story with the opening sentence ‘ They were cooking apples . ’ |
| 10 | The players who might be worth persevering with such as Hinchcliffe , Cottee and Beagrie , are usually the fall guys ( surely not because they were Harvey signings ? ) |
| 11 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 12 | They told her they were council workers who 'd come to fix her doors . |
| 13 | We used to have fogs in Darrowby , but they were country fogs , different from this . |
| 14 | They were country gentlemen , and very fond of hunting and shooting . |
| 15 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 16 | They were country people . |
| 17 | He spent the black hours best in the writing of hopelessly happy propositions to her that he kept for comfort in a drawer , as if they were love letters received from her instead of dead ones from himself that he saw no good in posting . |
| 18 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 19 | They were art students at the time when art college was the bolthole for all the drug-deranged bongo bashers , paint flingers , crappy experimental film-makers and fanny dancers who thought being a student was a great doss but they were f—ed if they were going to read any books . |
| 20 | It was in the winter time so it was full of hay but they would be very careful and we would ask them that they had no matches in case er there was no cigarettes much and that but pipes they were pipe smokers . |
| 21 | They were glen folk yes . |
| 22 | They were glen folks ? |
| 23 | Whether this was because of the weather , which was warm , or because they were all as curious as cats or , perhaps , because they were actors manqué , Julia had not yet decided . |
| 24 | They were MICK HARDWICK , 33 , his wife SUE , 28 , and their friends DAVE HARRIES , 33 , and ALISON COPE . |
| 25 | No we did n't buy tyres , no they were tyre mileage rates and erm mileage was the , tyres were paid for on the mileage run . |
| 26 | But , now with Stamford you can feel that they were Litchet way , I think . |
| 27 | They were 5ft diameter with 6in tire , manganese bronze nave , 12in pipe , with dust cap , two screws and locking wire , pipe box bolt and drag washer . |
| 28 | Thousands wounded you know , you could n't get you into these into er huts , they were army huts you know er and taking them in er out in rain and er best best you could . |
| 29 | They were Deputy Lieutenants , High Sheriffs and joint lords of the manor . |
| 30 | They were Gillian Stewart and Carl Mason , also round in 69 and also with a plan . |