Example sentences of "[pron] were a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff ! |
| 2 | But her mother , who was hostile to facts , had gone on entertaining for her as if she were a chaste child just emerging from school . |
| 3 | Ruth found herself in his arms , her face against his broad chest — as if she were a little girl again , in the time before she 'd known he was crazy . |
| 4 | You were a decent woman once , |
| 5 | Another extremely brave little boy in the front row spoke up and said , ‘ But surely you were a small person once , Miss Trunchbull , were n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | STEERINA : A car you used to make when you were a young fella out of old prams and burnt out helicopters . |
| 7 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 8 | ‘ But I did n't know you were a big dreamer then . |
| 9 | Whereas if you were a commercial organization where let's say you were selling a product , then you 'd expect to see a cost benefit in actual returns . |
| 10 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 11 | We were a darned sight better than them . |
| 12 | And that 's when the railways I thought , nineteen fifty five to nineteen sixty , there were a great surge forward . |
| 13 | 203 , 230 , Lord President Clyde pointed out the problems which could arise if there were a wholesale opening up of prior transactions and Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 14 | Mr Kinnock would be in Downing Street with an overall majority of 28 seats if there were a general election tomorrow , according to a Mori aggregate poll in The Times , which surveyed more than 7,500 people over three months . |
| 15 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 16 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 17 | But they were a long way ahead now , and his mother would never guess what he was up to . |
| 18 | They were a long way out of Thirkett now . |
| 19 | Note the defence shown at point 2 above , when the offender has no reason to believe anyone was within hearing or seeing distances who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , e.g. if some people could see him , but they were a long way off . |
| 20 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 21 | In this respect , clearly , they were a great deal closer than Richards to the Russian Formalists and their successors . |
| 22 | They were a poor investment now in a period of inflation , even if ‘ free ’ golf was enjoyed . |
| 23 | Well those Toshibas go with a bit more of a swing , they were a blooming nuisance before . |
| 24 | ‘ They were a subversive presence here , ’ he says . |
| 25 | It were a damn sight better bloody thing than that . |
| 26 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 27 | ‘ Your grandad used to say it were a fine drive back with no one telling him what to do . ’ |
| 28 | He took the cheroot from his mouth and peered at its slobbered-on green end , as if it were a reptilian rump about to grow a new tail . |