Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] were [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who reported me were overzealous in thinking I had done something wrong |
| 2 | The photographs which encircled me were happy with many smiling , young faces on them . |
| 3 | In your June Doggie Post Bag you mentioned you were unable to trace any animal charity which collected aluminium cans for funds . |
| 4 | I spoke to her on Wednesday , she seemed alright , never mentioned she were poorly . |
| 5 | But with the two new extensions built we were able to work more comfortably with carpeted classrooms . |
| 6 | I do n't recall which of us spoke it first , but as the end approached we were both mouthing it imploringly , like a prayer , like a spell . |
| 7 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |
| 8 | Again , the key to assimilation was complete equality of peoples , and opposition to those who pretended there were separate national cultures operating above the two classes in each culture ( as argued by Bauer ) . |
| 9 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |
| 10 | They found there were frequent proportionate mispricings in excess of transactions costs , and the average size of the proportionate mispricings did not drop over this four year period . |
| 11 | Players certainly gained in terms of rising wages , advertising , and other sources of income , but at the highest level they often found there were new stresses to cope with as they were ‘ declassed ’ and lost touch with their old communities . |
| 12 | The survey was conducted outside London , but a comparable investigation within the capital found there were more complaints about prices , beer quality and the general character of the pub , but fewer about service . |
| 13 | I I feel a bit sorry for for some of the counters because they can see certain on one palette for instance , I found there were three sorts of bags . |
| 14 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 15 | Even in rebellion , as Mervyn James has noted of the Lincolnshire rebellions of 1536 against Henry VIII , the rebels maintained they were loyal to the king . |
| 16 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 17 | Both members of the London Anti-Slavery committee and some of the Liverpool abolitionists who encountered him were doubtful about Clarkson 's attitudes and methods in gathering information from participants in the African slave trade . |
| 18 | These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long . |
| 19 | Initially both brothers found they were delighted with the arrangement . |
| 20 | Those left standing looked around sheepishly , as though , like Adam and Eve , they suddenly found they were naked and in the open . |
| 21 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 22 | And er rock er dropped use that expression , they used they were both right at the at the foot of the quarry face or precipice or whatever somewhere around a hundred foot high and then th they blasted the top see and dropped a whole fall . |
| 23 | But other forms eventually arose which were able to extract hydrogen from a very much more widespread source — water . |
| 24 | First , the physical injuries suffered by the children were relatively minor but the incidents which caused them were significant . |
| 25 | I always believed you were innocent ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I believed you were older than you are , perhaps a little bit more experienced , because of your bravery in accepting a lift . |
| 27 | We believed we were poor because we children were expensive items , and all the arrangements had been made for us . |
| 28 | ‘ We judged we were able to fight double our number of any troops that could oppose us . ’ |
| 29 | I concentrated on keeping straight ( easy ) and feeling for the peak nose-up pitch that signified we were ready to lift onto the step ( more difficult ) . |
| 30 | The river was white , and on the ferry in mid-stream , it seemed we were adrift in a cloud . |