Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [pron] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 2 | One night , the wife pointed casually to a cupboard and told me there were some back issues of Cosmopolitan there if I wanted to look . |
| 3 | I told you there were mini roast potatoes . |
| 4 | When she was a little girl her grandmother told her there were two angels beside her bed . |
| 5 | I told her there were special beds that we have are very useful , in fact very necessary in some , some cases , and are painfully short of them . |
| 6 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 7 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |