Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [was/were] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where are the four Marine Commandos who were killed this evening ? ’ |
| 2 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 3 | The figures we were given this morning indicate that in within the Greater York area , the increase would be from sixteen point three to twenty point six . |
| 4 | This drive to help people back to work is equally evident in the success of the Job Search Seminars which were held this year and funded by Employment Services . |
| 5 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 6 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |