Example sentences of "[pers pn] were one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 2 | You were one person , now you are another . |
| 3 | We were one day from the summit , after six weeks of effort . |
| 4 | When the alarm dragged us from our dreams on September 3 last year we were one night 's work from the summit ridge — just 12 hours from the top of Ultar . |
| 5 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 6 | They were one day from the summit , with only 200 feet of difficult climbing to do , when Saunders ' crampon broke . |
| 7 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 10 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
| 11 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 12 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 13 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |