Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 2 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 3 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 4 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
| 5 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 6 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 7 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |