Example sentences of "they were [noun] [noun prp] " 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 | They were MICK HARDWICK , 33 , his wife SUE , 28 , and their friends DAVE HARRIES , 33 , and ALISON COPE . |
| 3 | They were Gillian Stewart and Carl Mason , also round in 69 and also with a plan . |
| 4 | They were Philip Davies , representing the Gornal Herd , Four Crosses , Llanymynech , near Oswestry ; Harry Evans , the Ceinwen herd , Rhosbadrig Farm , Ty Groes , Gwynedd ; and Ray Brown , the Bidlea herd , The Orchards , Twemlow , near Holmes Chapel . |
| 5 | They were Ian Macleod and Enoch Powell , who were not natural bedfellows , but who for the moment had got into a huddle . |
| 6 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |
| 7 | They were Patrick Loughran ( 61 ) of Clonard Street , Joe McBride ( 40 ) , of Riverdale Park Drive and Michael O'Dwyer ( 21 ) , Linview Court . |
| 8 | They were Ethel Elderton ( who conducted the study of the English birth rate ) , and Alice Lee , who investigated the relationship between skull capacity and intellectual ability in both men and women . |
| 9 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |
| 10 | Who 'd want to pretend they were Connie Fraser ? |
| 11 | It was certainly a family picture — four ladies seated in a row with their offspring cross-legged on the ground in front of them : from left to right they were Sarah Kleiber and Benjamin , Gloria Judge and Matthew , Ruth O'Dell , with Lilian on her lap and Danny at her feet — and Maudie Judge , with her hand on Trevor 's shoulder . |
| 12 | You remember they did the changeover five or six years ago now , and the schools were mi er were getting mix er er they were mixed sexes and they were Archbishop Holgate 's was going to be two sexes and so was Queen Anne 's . |
| 13 | They were HMS Sheffield , HMS Ardent , HMS Antelope and HMS Coventry . |
| 14 | They were Herbert Morrison , George Isaacs , Tom Williams and Arthur Woodburn . |
| 15 | They were Sara Maitland , now an author and reviewer ; Mandy Merck , a radical lesbian feminist who now teaches at Cornell ; and Catherine Gieve , a senior solicitor at Bindman and Co in London . |
| 16 | They were P Cates , Worcs ; M Martin , Ayrshire ; J Heath , Stoke on Trent ; R Turney , Plymouth ; F Breeze , Kent and A Butler , Uxbridge . |
| 17 | This year they were Annie Huggett , aged 97 , and Roy Hughes , aged 80 . |
| 18 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 19 | They were de Maizière , Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , erstwhile ( CDU ) president of the Volkskammer and acting East German head of state , Günther Krause , also of the CDU , who had been de Maizière 's state secretary and a key negotiator of the terms of unification , Rainer Ortleb , vice-president of the unified FDP , and Hansjoachim Walther of the DSU . |
| 20 | They were S Jones , Stafford ; W Dawson , Farnworth ; K Redfern , Doncaster ; V Rolston , Co . |
| 21 | They seemed to be watching me , and then one of them waved , and I saw that they were Megan Lloyd and Ann Tracy . |
| 22 | They were Anatole Sanagare , director of state security under Traore , and Lt.-Col. Oumar Diallo , a former aide to Traore . |
| 23 | They were Ellen Oliver , a girl who had arrived from Plymouth , and a boy whose name would seem to differ in various reports . |
| 24 | The event was dominated not by the man but by a team of ladies all from the City of Derry , they were Ann Wallace , Claire Hughes and Vivienne Houston and their professional from Cill Dara was Gerry Burke . |
| 25 | They were W. Anker Simmons , his brother C. Franklin Simmons and E. H. ( Harry ) Dee . |
| 26 | But he said they were Miss Lipman 's orders . |
| 27 | They were Miss Margaret ( Peggy ) Herbison , who is the oldest surviving Scottish woman MP , having served in the Labour Party cabinet in the 1960s ; Councillor Sheila Ritchie , who has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in Gordon for a number of years and is at present a member of the party 's National Executive Committee ; and Miss Ann Hay , who is an influential key organiser for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | They were Placide Lengelo Muangundu ( Social Affairs ) , Gustave Malumba Mbangula ( Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economy and Industry ) , and Weregemere Na Manta ( Secretary of State for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises ) . |
| 29 | They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before . |
| 30 | ‘ Supposing for instance someone came and said they were Mr Unwin , you would check that his name was on the list and let him in ? ’ |