Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] were [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll say you were in a temper , and it had n't changed any when you were back in the office . |
| 4 | ‘ Look at you , you 'd think you were at a suspect 's house instead of your daughter 's bedroom . |
| 5 | Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work . |
| 6 | No I can remember we were in a on the cliffs as well . |