Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 3 | When I saw you , I knew you were the ideal person to share with , and I 've never regretted it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 6 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 7 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 8 | They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much . |
| 9 | Generally small and well kept , the more well kept they were the deader they were . |
| 10 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eleanor felt they were the funniest letters she 'd ever written ; Nigel brought out the best in her writing . |
| 13 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 17 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 18 | He thought they were the local militia . |
| 19 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 20 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 21 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 24 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 25 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 26 | They specifically denied they were the Arab Revolutionary Cells Group , originally believed to be holding Mr Reed . |
| 27 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |