Example sentences of "[pers pn] were both [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were both heroes for giving up a beautiful sunny day to further the cause . |
| 2 | Surely he would n't do that if you were both daggers drawn . ’ |
| 3 | We were both southerners . |
| 4 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 5 | Conservative Club , and my wife she wa we were both members there oh and there was a , I tell you another shop that probably I have n't mentioned , just before you get to the White Hart there was Thompsons the butcher 's shop with er they got three or four er daughters I remember . |
| 6 | I wondered if we were both thinking of Charlie as we did it . |
| 7 | We were both monitors and I helped the teacher with the younger children , teaching them how to knit socks and balaclavas for the soldiers at the Front . |
| 8 | They were both widows , so there was no husband 's welfare to inquire about . |
| 9 | Grandparents were in a uniquely strong position as substitute parents , for they were both progenitors and chosen friends . |
| 10 | Soon Diana and Mary would leave Moor House to return to the wealthy families in the south , where they were both governesses , and St John would go back to the vicar 's house in Morton , with Hannah , his housekeeper . |
| 11 | They were convicted of ‘ disrespect ’ for writing a letter to the executive board of the Communist Youth Union , of which they were both members , accusing President Fidel Castro of being a traitor . |
| 12 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 13 | She did love him , she had always loved him , but now that they were both adults the love she felt for him had taken on a far greater significance . |
| 14 | He walked over to the timber stack along with a sawyer called Iain Logan whom he knew well — they were both friends of Donald Gillies at Camserney mill . |
| 15 | They were both boys in Manchester in the late sixties and early seventies , when every United and City game seemed to be a 4–3 victory with Best or Colin Bell scoring the winner three minutes from time . |
| 16 | They were both letters in Ash 's flowing hand , both headed with his Great Russell Street address and dated , June 21st . |
| 17 | They were both periods when the presidency was in the hands of the Democrats and the programmes necessitating large growth in the bureaucracy were social-welfare policies of the type embraced by liberals . |
| 18 | The dead giveaway , though , was that they were both way beyond Juvenile Court status and they were both wearing suits . |
| 19 | They were both part of Bob Dylan 's backing band in the disastrous film Hearts Of Fire : Fred had to teach the songs they would mime to that day to Dylan each morning . |
| 20 | Indeed , they were both part of the same system , and they could not be separated . |
| 21 | They were both North Sea silver , straight from Loch Brora . |
| 22 | Although they were both Mississippi bluesmen , with John Lee you 'd never know when he was gon na change chords ! |
| 23 | They were both hairdressers those were . |
| 24 | They were both cases expressing the consensus of politician and priest . |
| 25 | His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute . |
| 26 | ‘ Journals , letters — they were both Glynn 's cup of tea , not mine . ’ |
| 27 | In the first appeal a local authority applied to commit the contemnor to prison for contempt of court following outbursts of violence during wardship proceedings in which they were both parties . |
| 28 | My Lord by way of facts the first named plaintiff Mr is now er fifty eight years of age and he and his wife live in Brentwood er both are named as plaintiffs because their joint monies were expended in the purchase of the , this business and they were both parties to the purchase erm but it is clear that Mr in fact did all the negotiations for the purchase and the planning and the running of this business and he is er the prime witness on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 29 | It was surely in this street that he and old George Percival had picked up two excellent vegetarian take-aways when they were both detective-sergeants on Division . |
| 30 | They were both demi-mondes of physical extremism , raw athleticism and slave-master relationships . |