Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 2 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 3 | You were even lip reading . |
| 4 | And only a fraction over one in ten said they even fancied someone else , a survey for TV Times and ITV 's Wish You Were Here programme found . |
| 5 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 6 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 7 | And , but what you were actually spending was the money on the resources . |
| 8 | You are , you , you were very sort of standard-wise |
| 9 | It 's the time you decide to take revenge for the wrongs that have been done to you when you were too nave and scared to do anything about it . |
| 10 | And we were also way off beam about unemployment being the greatest political force of the 1980s in the Third World — we predicted riots among the urban unemployed all over the world which simply have n't happened . |
| 11 | unless we were just kind of indulge in a conversation and we did n't see it |
| 12 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 13 | ‘ To them we were just part of their extended families . ’ |
| 14 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 15 | Erlich said , ‘ I did n't get the message we were exactly priority . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No , we were both flesh and blood all right . ’ |
| 17 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 18 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 19 | The direct questions we needed to ask of deaf people could not be asked adequately , since we were only language learners . |
| 20 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 21 | Twenty years of industrial strife had ensured that an industry where we were once world leaders was an object of pity and derision . |
| 22 | No we never had a family so we were entirely foot free and foot loose . |
| 23 | That 's why we were familiar , because we were virtually brother and sister . ’ |
| 24 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 25 | In , In Holland when we were there motor cars were not allowed on the roads ! |
| 26 | Luz had its passeries or local treaties , signed with the corresponding valleys on the Spanish side of the mountains , which guaranteed that they would continue to trade with one another even at times when the nations they were nominally part of might be at war . |
| 27 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 28 | So they were probably breeding . |
| 29 | They were probably war veterans . |
| 30 | They were simply mistress and servant now |