Example sentences of "[pron] were [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |
| 2 | in while I were with the other chap . |
| 3 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 4 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 5 | At Leeds , they er , I have n't been and er I were in the Conservative club at Queensbury and they had a club , they had er , er a trip that went through to the erm , to the brewery and Leeds tt and they have a fi er a sociable room you know |
| 6 | And a short time later , Mala and I were in the safe side of our own ship 's airlock , staring at what lay nestled within the opened silicaplast container . |
| 7 | Because Joe and I were in the same position of being scolded by Mrs Joe , we were good friends , and Joe protected me from her anger whenever he could . |
| 8 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 9 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 10 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 11 | Problems arise when we come to consider the smaller centres , such as Arkhanes ; could they have had territories which were on the same footing as those of the major temple-centres ? |
| 12 | Three people ( GF , MM , and MS ) lived in houses which were on the same site as other residential facilities ( called ‘ campus ’ houses in the remainder of this paper ) . |
| 13 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 14 | Cargoes taken to and from the East were carried in specially built ships , which were among the largest contemporary merchantmen , the East Indiamen , and the officers ' places in these ships were an additional source of private patronage for those politicians who enjoyed influence with the owners of the ships , for it was the owners , not the Company , who appointed the commander and mates of East Indiamen . |
| 15 | Only sometimes in dreams the terrible days of the siege , which were like the dark foundation of the civilized life they had returned to , would return years later to visit them : then they would awake , terrified and sweating , to find themselves in white starched linen , in a comfortable bed , in peaceful England . |
| 16 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 17 | Only lot 10 failed to sell , probably due to its similarity to the two previous lots which were from the same series , and its slightly poorer condition . |
| 18 | So he began , with his bits of furniture which were in the real ‘ village-policeman ’ style , whatever that was . |
| 19 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 20 | and it was interesting to note a few groups apparently in their infancy , not all of which were in the larger authorities : |
| 21 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 22 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 23 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 24 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 25 | Not unnaturally , it has always been traditional to see the years to 1360 as constituting a period unfavourable to France : the initiative lay largely with the English , and it was mainly the French who were on the defensive . |
| 26 | Particularly striking were the much higher percentage of men than of women who were heads , and the much higher percentage of women than of men who were on the lowest two scales . |
| 27 | However , there are some people who were on the old set up who are n't yet on the new set up ; addresses below . |
| 28 | Erm , but I think P , er , budget review , or somebody needs to have a look at it , if you 've got budget review and you 've got people who , most of the people who were on the old working party know the background there anyway , seems as good a place as any to look at it . |
| 29 | They were joined by a party of Anzacs , who were on the last day of their leave before returning to the desert . |
| 30 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |