Example sentences of "they were [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever they were General Erskine 's thoughts were certainly not in accord with the French in Vietnam . |
| 2 | Sometime she felt so fond of him that she inclined to a belief in reincarnation , feeling that they must once have been twins : she understood him far too well for her peace of mind , and she knew why her brothers detested him ; apart from the fact that they were racists , they were baffled by his charm and his after-shave . |
| 3 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 4 | Advertising members of the family as if they were houses for sale |
| 5 | For each martyr well known , there are thousands who are little remembered but who suffered death because they were disciples of Christ . |
| 6 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 7 | They were Bakelite and dusty . |
| 8 | Nobody mentioned that they were puppets themselves . |
| 9 | They were drawings remarkable for their delicacy in an Arts Council exhibition devoted to the output of the Euston Road School . |
| 10 | I mean our place is nothing like that , I mean it is n't dowdy but they can probably put up wall coverings , scrap piece of paper , and they were drawings that the kids had ju , had drawn for us you know , and we said , look here mate , get stuffed , you know ! |
| 11 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 12 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 13 | Last night he had to put new plugs in , they were brand new before he crashed it were n't they ? |
| 14 | Thus , three other categories of persons who are not involved in any manufacturing , are treated as if they were producers under s2 . |
| 15 | They were vegetarians or , to be more accurate , herbivores . |
| 16 | They were now revealed as what they had always been , not figures of fun , not left-wing political extremists , not loony vegetarians ( though they were vegetarians ) , but harmless , mild , Labour-voting , CND-supporting , Fabian pamphlet-reading intellectuals , of a species that Alix now knew to be far from extinct . |
| 17 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 18 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 19 | They were hunters , metal-workers , cattle raisers and also engaged in primitive agriculture and the gathering of roots and nuts . |
| 20 | Usually they were gulls and I tied thick orange nylon fishing-line to a leg each , then sat on a dune and watched . |
| 21 | The little pulls of wind playing with the leaves were getting stronger now , shaking the petals from the wild roses and throwing them at the diners as if they were confetti . |
| 22 | Flitting with emotions as if they were confetti , the ‘ Slow Dive Ep ’ is one of the most beautiful and haunting records of the year and surely confirms Creation 's status as one of the very best indie labels . |
| 23 | Flitting with emotions as if they were confetti , the ‘ Slow Dive Ep ’ is one of the most beautiful and haunting records of the year and surely confirms Creation 's status as one of the very best indie labels . |
| 24 | Yet they were attempts to answer real questions , and not simply for fundamentalists . |
| 25 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 26 | They were steam engines using coal power to drive factory machinery , and blast furnaces using coke to make large quantities of iron . |
| 27 | Here they were steam tested and carriage heaters changed as required and main pipe leaks marked up for attention as the vehicle passed through the lifting shop . |
| 28 | Reach for them , and they were mist between your fingers . |
| 29 | The matey use of Blanche 's name struck a false note with Dexter , like interviewees he had seen on chat shows who kept tossing in the name of the host every thirty seconds to make it appear they were bosom pals . |
| 30 | This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars ! |