Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] were [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 2 | Perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die . |
| 3 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 4 | Whose arms went out first they would never know , but suddenly they were holding each other tightly , their mouths hungry for each other . |
| 5 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 6 | Soon we were making more money than the car company was losing . |
| 7 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 8 | I know just now when I came in just now you were doing some housework . |
| 9 | Well they were knocking one night well gone twelve , about twenty to one I think it was , still banging and hammering , and I 'm sure if I rang him and said look you know pack it up this , he 'd , he 'd say oh I 'm sorry yeah and he will , but you should n't have to do that |
| 10 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 11 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 12 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 13 | While we were there we were told some ghost stories about the house and in one room there was a mummified cat to ward off evil spirits . |
| 14 | Then they were running another way , running , not to the warren but over the fields in the cold , and Bigwig dropped the berries — blood-red drops , red droppings hard as wire . |
| 15 | So there they were facing each other , the man a that being squeezed er his lungs being squeezed , the man on the wardrobe n unable to move because he was upside down virtually facing him head-to-head . |
| 16 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 17 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |