Example sentences of "[pers pn] were a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 2 | If she were a good spit and-polish balabosteh like her Aunt Minna , where would I be now ? |
| 3 | But I was the Annie character — you know — if you were a good girl you 'd be rewarded , and it is n't nice to make a fuss . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You were a good friend to me . ’ |
| 5 | And you were a good King . ’ |
| 6 | " You were a good baby , " my mother would tell me , " good as gold . " |
| 7 | You were a good soldier , Gosse . |
| 8 | ‘ You were a good accountant who had excellent prospects in the firm . |
| 9 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 10 | They thought they really were n't very much , but they were a good selling point . |
| 11 | They were a good team , all right . |
| 12 | And they were a good bunch of people , but the down side was that Armitage & Norton was much more friendly and accessible . ’ |
| 13 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 14 | A possible source of such a field is an internal lunar dipole source , since vanished , though other possible sources are the Earth 's field and the Sun 's field if they were a good deal stronger in the past than they are today . |
| 15 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 16 | Then he started getting Girls from Blackpool , they were a better class . |
| 17 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 18 | And it were a good group , I wanted to go see . |
| 19 | Oh yes , as they were filming at the Lyceum last week they were , it were a good programme I can tell you |
| 20 | He were a good father , Ruth . |
| 21 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |