Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] were [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 2 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 3 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 4 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 5 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 7 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 8 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 9 | He would n't eat them , cos he thought they were in the other potato . |
| 10 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 11 | Black labradors draped over chairs looked as ‘ buggered ’ as one of the ladies said they were after the four hour walk in the wake of their shooting husbands that morning . |