Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
| 2 | She was a women 's libber really , because she said they 'd tried to stop the pit brow lasses , but it never came off . " |
| 3 | Henley took quite an interest in her and she was the Ladies ' President from 1920–1925 . |
| 4 | ‘ She was the kids ' cat . |
| 5 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 6 | To the War office , they were the Women 's Timber Corps . |
| 7 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 8 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 9 | The gleaming black exterior with the polished silver lamp-brackets and the forbidding curtains within that could be drawn to hide its occupants from prying stares told him it was a mourners ' carriage he had spent the night in . |
| 10 | Portia appears indeed in Act four to be just in her defence of Antonio , and no one can comment on her choice of suitor in Act three , for surely it was the suitors ' luck and character that were the key to her , or so it seemed . |
| 11 | The following year it was the inner-cities ' turn once again , especially Inner London . |
| 12 | It was the dancers ' last night so they were doused by Turner , the bone tech , armed with a high-powered water pistol , and wearing diapers . |
| 13 | It was the judges ' commitment to freedom that was the main guarantee against despotism . |
| 14 | It was the respondents ' task to investigate ‘ what was the true financial position of Atlantic at the time of its acquisition and , if it was different from the way it was represented , how and why the truth was concealed : ’ Hoffmann J. [ 1991 ] B.C.C. 651 , 661 . |
| 15 | More than that , it was the Hawaiians ' way of retaining a sense of dignity and worth , it was their way of staying alive . |
| 16 | However , it was the evaluators ' impression that the dispute coincided with a certain demoralisation amongst panel members which had more to do with the disorganisation and instability of the panel itself . |
| 17 | As far as he was concerned , it was the Russians ' mistake and up to them to sort it out . |
| 18 | Recycling of waste was essential and it was the housewives ' job another job for her to salvage from her home such things as paper , bones , tin cans , old gramophone records , photographs and negatives , jam jars , rubber and rags . |
| 19 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 20 | It was the Hammers ' lowest gate since 9,500 watched them play Bristol City in 1957 . |
| 21 | Now it was the women 's turn again ; while the men debated the finer points of why the device had failed , we fetched buckets of water and old blankets and quickly put out the fire . |
| 22 | It was the women 's turn to cheer while the surrounding men scowled and muttered obscenities . |
| 23 | ‘ We won that series 2–1 and it was the Lions ' first tour triumph in Australia . ’ |
| 24 | Ironically one of those who could n't make it was the Conservatives ' first Asian Tory MP Nirj Deva , who is serving a life ban at the restaurant for becoming ‘ too exuberant ’ there seven years ago . |
| 25 | And it was the filmmakers ' good fortune that their first creative maturity coincided with Rank 's willingness to give full scope to their talents . |
| 26 | Today though it was the residents ' chance to view the house for themselves . |
| 27 | It was the kings ' collective identity as a family , clearly marked out by their distinctive names , that gave the Carolingian world a political unity underlying successive partitions . |
| 28 | It was the brothers ' intention to disappear in the ensuing melée . |
| 29 | It 's , it was the architects ' department erm , till they go like you know , till they Palatine Hall erm , it used to be the architects ' department . |
| 30 | It would n't have worked out with the first gentleman as it happens , because although he had a lovely smile , he was a ladies ' man and he did like drink too much . |