Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 2 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 3 | and anything with a foreign number plate they were |
| 4 | In a small harbour below an empty summer house they were greeted by a seaman , who had been sitting warming his hands on the engine of a small black motorboat , incongruously called Shirley . |
| 5 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 6 | After the second escape attempt they were beaten again and flung into the blackness of stone-floored isolation cells in the nearby fort at An Dap . |
| 7 | For the second Test running we were treated to the sight of a batsman in plaster coming out to help a colleague reach his hundred , and both were successful . |
| 8 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 9 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 10 | Outside county hall they were already celebrating . |
| 11 | With their sophisticated radio equipment they were able to use satellites to call up airstrikes , then talk the pilots right on to their targets with devastating accuracy . |
| 12 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 13 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 14 | After another two-hour session on the now freezing parade ground they were released for supper . |
| 15 | But against a resolute Portadown defence they were getting little change . |
| 16 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 17 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 18 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 19 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 20 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |
| 21 | With eleven women plus the Spare Rib Collective we were not able to cover all of these topics , but as has been mentioned this discussion is to launch a series which hopefully will discuss all of these issues and more . |
| 22 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 23 | Because of the early establishment of the Danish Cancer Registry we were able to show that this potential association dates back to at least the 1940s . |
| 24 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 25 | The Baughs checked the original offer letter carefully and they say it did not state clearly that once people have accepted , there was no way out and it certainly did not mention the excessive opt-out figure they were later quoted . |
| 26 | we were , we were furniture made , you know , all we thought about was the home and in fact once we could n't afford any wall paper we were decorating so George painted the wall white and we got saucepan lids , and even the dustbin lid and with er , er , a black pen , felt type pen I suppose although felt pens were n't out then |
| 27 | In general , children stay in the same percentile band they were in at birth . |
| 28 | Whilst coffins of this type were produced for vault and brick-lined shaft deposit they were also required for intramural earth-cut graves ; one such example from the 1820s was discovered during the excavations at St Mary 's Church , Little Ilford , Essex in 1984 . |
| 29 | The Norwich City Council wanted to get a licence to be able to sell intoxicants at a new pop centre they were going to open , mainly for young people , and was a member of the Labour Party , incidentally , and and a County Councillor , one of the City Wards , had the cheek to go and oppose the whole of Norwich City Council |
| 30 | From a seduction-packed dessert trolley we were led by the chef towards his ‘ tarte aux peches avec un coulis de framboises ’ . |