Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 2 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 3 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
| 4 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 5 | In Behrend v. Produce Brokers ( 1920 K.B. ) part of the goods were delivered which the buyers accepted . |
| 6 | After Big Bang , private clients discovered that stockbrokers were offering them an increasingly impersonal service . |
| 7 | The uniforms were giving her the once-over . |
| 8 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 9 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 10 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 11 | In 1893 the Forget-me-nots were billed us the ‘ smallest dancers on the variety stage . |
| 12 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 13 | Paths were lost which the water had obliterated and silent highways were marked by great trees lying prostrate across the track . |
| 14 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 15 | Too often I was asked to bowl defensively , brought into the attack to stop the flood of runs when batsmen were giving us a caning . |