Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pers pn] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bought a quantity believing they were Ecstasy , but when he tried them found that they were another drug altogether . |
| 2 | After hesitating a moment , he admitted that they were all detector finds . |
| 3 | John Chadwick QC , representing four of the banks , yesterday argued that they were innocent parties in these transactions . |
| 4 | The last of the bedsheets , ripped into ribbons , had been torn away but he believed that they were well north of the Makaa . |
| 5 | Eventually , I muttered that we were Labour supporters . |
| 6 | Since most of the refugees were Sunnis , the Maronites correctly divined that they were potential allies of Lebanon 's Muslims . |
| 7 | From the very start of " the expansion of Europe " the invaders tended to treat all the newly discovered peoples of Southern Africa and the Americas as less than fully human , a convenient doctrine which implied that they were legitimate objects for enslavement , exploitation and extermination . |
| 8 | There are various exceptions erm and there have been two or three in recent years , but it therefore meant that they were fair game for saying anything so they were fair game for a very sensational headline because there was very little chance of recrimination . |
| 9 | At the moment really I ca n't erm specifically recall them , but the I saw the personally , the direction of them , there was n't I did n't agree with erm them , but then there were other erm other citizens erm they saw that they were healthy changes . |
| 10 | He wanted to know how I knew that they were nine miles towards Mali and seemed to be bothered that I was only guessing . |
| 11 | Even as the thoughts entered her head , they were dismissed , because she knew that they were false comfort . |
| 12 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 13 | He said that they were professional witnesses from London , explaining that , if a prosecution lawyer was having difficulty in obtaining a conviction , he would handsomely reward a witness who would state under oath that he had seen the crime committed . |
| 14 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 15 | This is a rather unfortunate name , which apparently arises from early low resolution pictures which suggested that they were flat areas devoid of craters . |