Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 2 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 3 | I was at the Combeses ' yesterday , and the Hammonds were there . |
| 4 | Erm erm so y you were , you were with the tenants ' erm association , eighty two eighty three ? |
| 5 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |
| 6 | Williams team management said they were on the protestors ' side . |
| 7 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 8 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 9 | It was at the menders ' yesterday . |
| 10 | It was to the Women 's Institutes that the government turned to organize communal preservation of home grown produce throughout the land . |
| 11 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 12 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 13 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 14 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 15 | It was like a crooks ' convention |