Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked which were the smallest , and she picked out the three shortest ones quickly . |
| 2 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
| 3 | He noted there were the two schools ? |
| 4 | Maurice Johnson obviously realised who were the real patients in the house . |
| 5 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 6 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 7 | When I saw you , I knew you were the ideal person to share with , and I 've never regretted it . ’ |
| 8 | We started a bit shaky , and took a while to adjust , but in the end we could have added to our tally , by which time I felt we were the better side . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 10 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 11 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 12 | They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much . |
| 13 | Generally small and well kept , the more well kept they were the deader they were . |
| 14 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 15 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 16 | Eleanor felt they were the funniest letters she 'd ever written ; Nigel brought out the best in her writing . |
| 17 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 19 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 20 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 21 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 22 | He thought they were the local militia . |
| 23 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 24 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 25 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 26 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 27 | She wished there were the faintest chance that he would drop being breezy . |
| 28 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
| 29 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 30 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |