Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were several sizes larger she could have them . ’ |
| 2 | You were both heroes for giving up a beautiful sunny day to further the cause . |
| 3 | Surely he would n't do that if you were both daggers drawn . ’ |
| 4 | We were all members , at that time , of the Birmingham Consumer Group . |
| 5 | No I think at the onset we were all well we were all beginners at the game if you like . |
| 6 | We were all mates and feel Shakey has betrayed us . ’ |
| 7 | We were all women , including the daughter of a miner , who had been married to a miner and whose son was now a miner . |
| 8 | We can do so much more than simply acting as if we were all Victorians . |
| 9 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 10 | I thought we were all biologists these days ! |
| 11 | ‘ We were all friends before we got the band together , and it 's strange that there 's gon na be changes , ’ continues Greg , with clinical ruthlessness . |
| 12 | We were all raggas , very street . |
| 13 | You know we were all amateurs at the game , the workers , but some of the women you know do it professionally , had worked elsewhere , knew how things went on elsewhere you know , with the D H S S or whatever . |
| 14 | ‘ When we were all kids the man who used to teach Joe the violin said we were like a nest of singing birds . |
| 15 | ‘ Charlotte 's fearfully clever about that sort of thing , always was , even when we were all kids . ’ |
| 16 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 17 | So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ? |
| 18 | You seem to have forgotten we were all children together . ’ |
| 19 | It seemed that Jackson Chatterton was right , for we were all witnesses to a dreadful metamorphosis in Rickie . |
| 20 | Eve we were all brothers and sisters under the skin had provided an argument against slavery . |
| 21 | We were both southerners . |
| 22 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 23 | Conservative Club , and my wife she wa we were both members there oh and there was a , I tell you another shop that probably I have n't mentioned , just before you get to the White Hart there was Thompsons the butcher 's shop with er they got three or four er daughters I remember . |
| 24 | We were both monitors and I helped the teacher with the younger children , teaching them how to knit socks and balaclavas for the soldiers at the Front . |
| 25 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 26 | We were several shots in hand of Mr Lu and the rest of the field , but at this point Lee 's words about bad luck started to haunt me . |
| 27 | Jesus who Himself spoke of ‘ the creation ’ could also have rightly spoken in terms of ‘ my creation ’ for as the apostle Paul wrote ‘ by Him were all things CREATED that are in heaven ( was there evolution in heaven ? ) and that are in earth … all things were CREATED by Him and for Him . ’ |
| 28 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 29 | Of particular interest to him were those writers who were ‘ concerned in different ways with human nature , individual and collective consciousness and the conditions of social order ’ . |
| 30 | They were all fools . |