Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 2 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 3 | As volunteers for the day we were accorded the same privilege . |
| 4 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 5 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 6 | Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home . |
| 7 | After all , they were paid the same sum whether Nigel arrived by Rolls Royce or dustcart . |
| 8 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 9 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |