Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] were [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given our human circumstances , it is extremely difficult for any human observer to investigate a member of his own species as if he or she were a creature of nature , out there , on the other side of the plate glass . |
| 2 | The reader feels entertained , but in an excluded sort of way , rather as though he or she were the butler at a particularly lively dessert at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 3 | With evacuation and the Movement 's preference for rural settings for foster homes and hostels , younger children were often isolated in small village primary schools , where they were a curiosity to the other children and to the staff . |
| 4 | ‘ That you were a feminist ? |
| 5 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 6 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ From the moment they told me that you were a breech baby I knew I 'd have trouble with you . ’ |
| 8 | " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here . |
| 9 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 10 | Did you ever have the feeling that you were almost more a part of management that you were a representative of the workforce ? |
| 11 | You said about the buyer 's guide that it 's , that you were a representative of Friends Provident , you 're an employee and it 's very very important to stress that because people like Abbey National were appointed representatives but we are employees and that 's one of the things , that 's one of the good things you can get out of the buyer 's guide . |
| 12 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 13 | Is that right that you were a security guard before you were made up to reception manager . |
| 14 | What we 're forgetting is that you were an actor in civilian life . ’ |
| 15 | You say in your book that many of your problems stem from the fact that you were the wife of an ambitious politician . |
| 16 | How did it feel to know that you were the instrument and the cause of something so enormously and comprehensively dreadful ? |
| 17 | ‘ Jones and Nicky Kai were leaving the building when I arrived this evening , and as Jones seemed to imagine that I was here to call on him I simply explained that you were the object of my presence . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I had no idea that you were the sort to put a great deal of store on the value of one-to-one relationships . ’ |
| 19 | Someone said that you were the father of Jane Davenant 's son . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When did you tell your uncle that you were the father of Cissie Jordan 's baby ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to be quicker than you were a minute ago , then , ’ Scott hissed and pulled the car away from the kerb . |
| 22 | Once you were a survivor , Zambia told hirself . |
| 23 | It explained the problems although we were a bit — we 'll go on to the cons in a minute . |
| 24 | Well he just well he gave us er algebra and geome geometry and maths and that we were no use . |
| 25 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |
| 26 | That we were a reincarnation of The Jam |
| 27 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 28 | It is , and that is the advantage of Kuwait , and that is one thing which which perhaps the world should appreciate , that we were a haven for ex-patriots to come there and make a living and work . |
| 29 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 30 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |